Even easier, you can take out critical parts of substations and other electrical infrastructure with a high-powered rifle. The world lives on the knife-edge of

Even easier, you can take out critical parts of substations and other electrical infrastructure with a high-powered rifle. The world lives on the knife-edge of chaos. It's trivial to cause mass panic by driving a car into a group of people, or by a multitude of other means. The only reason society manages to even exist is that we generally trust each other. It's the fundamental underpinning of society. Most people are generally law abiding citizens. The reason that people don't murder each other isn't because it's illegal, it's because they don't want to. Society relies on the fact that we are generally nice people.