first you need to know the term "salami slicing" meaning doing stuff and stop short of a reaction, like CCP does with the artificial islands
guns are like nukes, county that have nukes need a serious reason to use them so small pokes aka slice is not a good excuse to use a nuke
guns dont work against tyranny, simple because people needs a valid reason to make armed revolution or similar, but people are not institutions like that army, the army needs a good excuse to use a nuke so is not removing the conventional stuff, people got lazy and consider the guns the only and ultimate defence this is the main issue they are still waiting for the big battle rifle in hand but that big decisive battle wont even happen because everything is sliced is little barely noticeable increments
if you think i have a point please spread this far and wide
I think it goes both ways though. The US government knows that armed citizens outnumber them 100 to 1, and so are far more measured on their attacks of the people.
Also, historically, the government has had serious blow back because of private gun ownership. During the US civil war, the military was fine with conquering the south, but vehemently opposed to a military occupation, mainly because of the armed citizens. The US war on armed natives was a compete disaster, and they were forced to change from a kill strategy to a reservation and welfare strategy. The raid on the branch davidians and ruby ridge cost the government retaliation in the OKC bombing costing them millions of dollars and several lives, for every life taken. When confronted with the calculated cost of an all out assault on gun owners, they were forced to back down. The more recent war on Afghanistan has been a costly disaster because of armed insurgents that the state can't disarm.
i strongly disagree that xyz stuff cost states money give that is all taxes it cost them 0 and demos pay the price