An interesting read, but I was not claiming that a more egalitarian distribution of physical power decreases violence—if anything, having one dominant power leads to peace because no-one challenges them, while as you say, the levelling power of firearms means that anyone can inflict violence.
AFAIK many tribal societies were much more violent—I read somewhere that in some tribes the majority of adult male deaths were due to homicide.
An interesting read, but I was not claiming that a more egalitarian distribution of physical power decreases violence—if anything, having one dominant power leads to peace because no-one challenges them, while as you say, the levelling power of firearms means that anyone can inflict violence.
AFAIK many tribal societies were much more violent—I read somewhere that in some tribes the majority of adult male deaths were due to homicide.