This is what happens when ordinary citizens are mostly not allowed to have guns. The old cliché is true, “ When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns!”.
Yeppers.
Can you imagine the effect on the Left if the cartels showed up in some Mexican town for a gang turf war only to discover heavily armed locals organized and determined to make sure no cartel thug lived to see sunset?
Can you imagine if it was a US town?
... same with street gangs in places like Chicago, but that would take black neighborhoods really really turning against the gangs no matter whose precious baby they might have once been....