That is the most motivated reasoning I’ve ever heard. The cost of tyranny within an area that’s decently armed and willing to fight back far exceeds that of a complicit populous trained to behave.
There may be a healthy skepticism of centralised power, but gun ownership is pretty centralised. Apparently, nearly half of US guns are owned by just 3% of population. That's still far away from your dream of a true diffusion of power.
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What % of iraqi citizens were active combatants?
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Dunno, but a large proportion of them were jihadi maniacs who used their weapons to rape and behead civilians, and would later go on to form the core of ISIS.
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All natural distributions are power laws. Long tails matter.
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