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The US did a lot better and rolled back restrictions much earlier than comparable countries, and guns are plausibly a big part of it. Like the French burned down cities over the issue and it didn't work. The US pretended militias were kidnapping a governor and we got a lot better.
That kidnapping thing is not a good example - I am about 95% certain it was done by the law enforcement with the explicit goal of destroying the right-wing groups, in which they had a lot of success, by the way - groups like Proud Boys or Oath Keepers were mercilessly squashed, and the only serious protest from the right (you know which one) led to everybody even in the vicinity of it ground into dust with an overwhelming force. I don't see it as "the Right threatened to kidnap a governor and the Machine run away in fear", I see it as "the Machine absolutely crushed anybody on the Right that could pose any threat of resistance, before they were able to pose even minuscule threat, and successfully used fake plots like kidnapping a governor to give it legitimacy in the eyes of the normies".
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