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That's smaller than the dimensions of the ISS, which is > 100m long

You would want the entryway to be moving slowly, so let's say that's one complete revolution every 12 seconds, or around a half a radian per second. Your central axis is 2m in diameter, so r is 1m. That means the ladder you need to grab is moving 0.5 m/s. That's probably the fastest rotation you can comfortably have. To get 1g at that rotation, the radius needs to be almost 40m long. The outer rim is moving 20 m/s, but you have your ~38 meter climb to transition to that speed.

Not being a complete wheel isn't the issue. You take up almost 2m of space with a person standing somewhere with their feet at the center of the space station. Their bed is a little more than a meter away, and is moving >20 km/hr. You're going to injure yourself as you leap into bed and try to grab on to something, or when you get out and try to come to a stop. It must be a much larger radius for this to be feasible. You need to be able to e.g. climb up a ladder to transition to the faster speeds

But as I showed, a small centrifuge has challenges. Your bed is going by you at >20 km/hr when you are at the axis. How do you get in and out? I would think a larger radius, to mitigate that problem and also use it for an exercise area rather than sleep.

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A little over a 3 meter radius then. a = v^2/r You need a speed approaching 6 m/s to get 1g. Have fun getting into and out of bed.

I assume you are suggesting something like the setup for the spaceship in The Martian. How big would the ring need to be, under reasonable assumptions of rotational speed?

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Such items are known as sneeze guards in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze_guard

They think they are Rambo, or that such heroics are realistic

Comparable? There is only one country in black. The US. The number is over 100 per 100 citizens, and is almost twice the next country. In Canada it's a third of that (and they are not free from school shootings), plus they have more stringent gun control laws in place, e.g. background checks and waiting periods, not present in US federal law. And there's this little tidbit "According to the Congressional Research Service, as of 2009 there were roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country And it's so easy to reach for a gun.

Which has not actually been established.

Here's a problem with this: these drugs aren't just used in the US. We can use pretty much the rest of the industrialized world as a control for our little experiment. If the drugs are the proximate cause, why don't we see this behavior elsewhere? The variable is the guns. They are not being blamed because it's easier. They are being blamed because that's where the evidence points.

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So IOW your expertise is as a participant, in one narrow area of law.