Or a society that still allows individuals to protect themselves. A failed society isn't any non-Utopian society.
Choosing to protect oneself and feeling compelled to because of the potential for very real danger are not the same things. Running with a handgun is uncomfortable. The amount of work women feel they need to put in to simply exist in the world and out ability to dismiss it in ways that can only be described as victim blaming, is quite impressive.
I didn't make any truth claim that this was good, just that it isn't what I would call a failed state. What would be worse then either is the city being dangerous and firearms are forbidden.