No, I’m being blunt. If you have to live like the 1800’s in the Wild West, public safety has broken down. Or, at least the norms of the last 70+ years.
Public safety has demonstrably has collapsed in both NYC and San Francisco, two cities I cite because we know their very small numbers of concealed carry permits (60,000 ownership ones, not all allowing concealed carry, and 1-3 any given year). And Hacker News features more than a few items about the latter.
The us is what it is and the introduction of more weapons into society won’t make it better.
"the introduction of more weapons into society won’t make it better."
And you know this how? We are after all taking about a state where there's been severe suppression of urban civilian handgun ownership, let along carrying, for over a century.