@axolotl @stairjoke @tb Interesting, all the public information I can find speaks about a non-violent movement. Using sticks and stones to drive out the gang members. Taking up arms from the former police and running regulated community patrol today, with strict gun controls in place for anyone else.
Can you please provide how exactly the ownership of guns led to Cheran becoming a better place? I can't find anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/courage-of-cheran-organizing-against-violence/
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mexican-indigenous-town-environmental-revolt.html