How can one terrorist with a handgun dominate an entire room of people, when the number of people in the room greatly exceeds the number of bullets in the handgun? Analytically, combat odds are in clear favour of the people in the room, since once the handgun is empty, the remaining people combined can be expected to defeat the terrorist. However, this calculation assumes militarism (ie. willingness to work solely for the purpose of defeating the terrorist) among the people in the room, which is rarely the case. It is more likely that the people in the room are dominated by survivalism (ie. the priority not to defeat the terrorist, but to keep themselves alive). Even if the handgun only has six rounds, no survivalists will want to be among the six who must be shot by the terrorist before the terrorist can be defeated, thus none will act. By the desire of each to survive, all are enslaved.
