Because the ruling class compensated by running extensive demoralization, disunity and disarray operations, and it worked. Greeks revolted against Ottoman occupation by smuggling and capturing enemy weaponry, and were almost all disarmed completely by the beginning of the revolts.
It does not matter how much guns the average american has when he cannot even trust his own neighbour, and the most likely wielders of such power have wet dreams of living in an atomized shack in the middle of nowhere expecting to live and die as a hermit, with zero social interaction with people of his own creed.
Because the ruling class compensated by running extensive demoralization, disunity and disarray operations, and it worked. Greeks revolted against Ottoman occupation by smuggling and capturing enemy weaponry, and were almost all disarmed completely by the beginning of the revolts.
It does not matter how much guns the average american has when he cannot even trust his own neighbour, and the most likely wielders of such power have wet dreams of living in an atomized shack in the middle of nowhere expecting to live and die as a hermit, with zero social interaction with people of his own creed.
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