What would be better, but, a nation without laws that lives 'by the gun.' What the NRA doesn't stop to realize is there would not be guns ruling the streets if such a paradyme were to exist in the USA. The country would divide into state against state and the armaments would be very different than 'street weapons.'
Quite frankly, if this degree of depersonaization were to dominate the USA, North Carolina has every measurable form of military already within its borders.
The states would fall back on National Guard to correct its path. The National Guard would then become 'a nation state' militia. Arizona with its new law to instill its own equivalent of National Guard at the State level is well ahead of the curve.