[NEWS] Five links: American gun owners, Japanese inequality, Polish politics, Lexit, #elsagate

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• The small minority of American gun owners who own huge numbers of guns, more than they could seemingly use, is the subject of this study at The Guardian.


• The Japanese economy may be growing, but so is inequality, Bloomberg reports.


• This Open Democracy examination of the sharpening political divides in Poland, particularly outside of Warsaw, is gripping. It starts with the self-immolation of Upper Silesian Piotr Szczęsny in his country's capital.


• Julian Savarer takes a look at the many problems with "Lexit", the idea of a left-wing argument for Brexit.


• James Bridle looks at the complex human and artificial mechanisms behind the production of so much wrong children's video content. #elsagate is only the tip of it all. Medium hosts the article.