It is not nearly as much about who has access to weapons as who has *legitimate* access to weapons.
Guns are hard to confiscate. But they can be made “illigitimate” much easier.
Then they are used as just another lever for enforcement based on who the government wants to pressure or destroy.
Oh, I understand; productive people will just use illegitimate weapons to protect themselves and their homes, and the government will have the same failures addressing it as they do in the cities.
The Dallas and Baton Rouge murders of cops were just a trace of what Middle America could do if they are pressed - and unlike the urban primates, those cops live amongst Middle America.