> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of

> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. Intuition would imply that, but I'd say there's not enough data to really say. There's countries with less civilian firearm ownership than the US, older and younger both, with more frequent violent revolution, and less frequent violent revolution. There's too many differences in culture, demographics, economics, and probably other factors I'm not thinking of, that even if increased rates of firearm ownership had an effect on the number of revolutions, that effect is utterly swamped by other factors. Your latter paragraph seems to imply you have a different idea of what preppers do than I do. When I hear the word "prepper", I think of a person who stockpiles non-perishable foods, stockpiles ammo, owns multiple firearms and practices with them regularly, and drills both evacuation and hunkering-down scenarios with their family. I'm not sure where alienation of the neighbors enters in here, as nothing in preparing for a disaster requires or recommends having pre-established enemies living <100 feet in any direction from where you do.