Ukraine pre-war already had a lower firearm homicide rate than the US....on top of that, they armed a huge portion of their population when they were invaded...so your point is even worse since they gave out literal assault rifles to civilians and their firearm homicide rate was still lower... sounds like its not the guns.
Lol yea safer and they handed out rifles to civilians...so what is it? Is it the guns still or not? Because last I checked militaries fight each other with real guns, not nerf.