Interesting that you use a western movie analogy. If you take it further wasn’t there certain towns where you had to leave your guns with the sheriff to be allowed in that town? “We don’t want no shootin ‘round here”.
Might be an idea.

My experience of those in uniform when I was in the US was that they revelled too much in wearing that uniform and appeared to think that it gave them the right to treat others like shit. As a tourist, doing nothing wrong, I felt threatened by them. This was in the 90s. Put me off going back.

A country obsessed with guns that wonders why people keep getting shot.