If permissive gun laws made places safer, America would be the safest country in the world by a large margin.
Instead, it’s crime rate is roughly the same as any other wealthy country, just with a layer of extreme gun violence on top.
We’ve waited 20 years for pro-gun bullshit to come true and it hasn’t made an inch of progress. People are being murdered the the street and authoritarians have never had more political power.