Now that you bring it to scale. I was continuing giving it a thought and reach to the following conclusion:

The US has this armament industry (not counting government) that in one side provides the citizens with arms to go to the shooting range to say Fuck Yeah, and support their industry, while in the other side provides arms all around the world to undeveloped countries to kill each others in perpetual civil wars. (Basically a very nasty industry)

It's true that an armed population keeps the government in balance, and also keeps away a possible insurrection of military forces. That's a great point.

It's not easy, I hope Bitcoin fixes this.