> A different approach might have been a used in East Germany if every house the Stasi went into looking for 'undesirables' had the potential for meeting a shotgun.
Not everything has to be compared to Nazi Germany.
I'll note that the lower possession of guns does have a difference in how we interact with the police, ad how the police interact with everyone else.
For instance, Officer-involved shootings are practically non-existent. For that matter, shootings of any kind are practically non-existent.
No-knock / SWAT style raids and use of pyrotechnics/flash-bangs/etc are reserved for where there's a lot more evidence that someone has a large number of weapons.
Nobody is afraid they might get shot by a police officer because they reached into their glove box or into their pocket.
I'm not saying things are all rainbows and unicorns, but still...
I don't see how turning up to talk to your representatives with a whole bunch of weapons is going to make the conversation go any better.