USA has always been a country with guns cowboys\indians wild west land of free.
- Germany exterminate 12m people.
- Japan occupation of Chinese.
- France massacre in Algiers
- British slaughter in india
Invading/subduing countries has nothing to do with being pro-gun. As a matter of fact, you don't have to use physical force to bring down groups of people and/or countries.
- European settlers brought down Native Americans by infecting them with diseases that they didn't have immunity to.
- Using Sanctions against a country (see modern day venezuela)
- Purposely isolate yourself because you have it better than everybody else, only latter to be beaten down and used as a sphere of influence for other nations (china)