Oddbean new post about login | logout It's a spectacle designed to scare the public and have them disarmed. This is also why our governments have been soft on crime for 30+ years. Politicians need the criminals to scare the public into submission to rigorous regulations.
So, it's basically like the Mafia behaviour, they create threats, then take away your money and rights to 'protect' you from those threats.
Yes; Vote for your favorite Mafia every 4 years. Though, the traditional mafia didn't have ambitions to indoctrinate your children and tell you what to think, as long as you paid your protection fee. Protection-against-the-mafia fee.