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It's because if you don't "biz as usual" with everyone else in the colonies, they kill you. Every law in the colonies and many norms are enforced by a man with a gun. The laws only apply to people who cannot buy their way out of them and they will kill you if you don't play their paper money trading game with them and let them win. They're murderers who have a short-order murder society and they kill people or put them in cages forever when anyone without fiat money doesn't pretend along.
They're the volk.
*edit And it isn't "blindness," their whole society is about this. Half of their television is about their fixation on their "criminal justice" murder-enslavement cult. They think prisons are normal and they send corrections officers to career days for children. Nobody is subtle or hiding what they are about in the colonies. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
This cuts both ways. Citizens have guns. The problem is that we're too afraid to use them in times of crisis like these, because it's been so long since we've been this pressured to get to that point.
And thus, the people with power will continue to abuse the powerless.
It does but I look at other dictatorships that allow their citizens to own guns like Russia and Nicaragua. They're still entrenched even with guns. The only difference I can see is the towns have defense against paramilitary and aren't dealing with M23. But they're still entrenched.