In the northern CA county where I spent most of my childhood, all of my teen age and most of my adult years, everyone carried a gun, either a handgun or a rifle or shotgun of some type. No one ever shot anyone, the murder rate in the county at that time(1950s and the 1960s when I became a grown man)was zero. Later, at drugs were introduced and the local Indian reservation became involved in selling drugs murder climbed a bit, and as time went on and we were gradually disarmed from carrying in public, except for special circumstances, murder climbed.
I remember kids bringing their rifles to school during deer season and hunting the hill behind the school with their dads when the school day ended. No one shot their classmates, no one committed suicide because they felt "bullied". All this BS occurred after the leftist took over. We need to do what is necessary to reinstate our constitution and our individual rights or we are doomed.