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Places that are have dense population centers though large parts of the country tend to have better ability to enforce laws and gun restrictions.
Ever look at one of those NASA veiws of the Earth at night? Japan is brightly lit for most of the country. The United States? There are bright lights from teh East coast until around the middle of the country, than marginal number of lights until you get to California. There is a lot of rural land out there still. And given how spread out everything is out west, you will not get a fast responce time from the police in many cases. (Urban Sprawl is the way of things out West).
That and the military is not suppose to enforce laws within US borders via the Constitution. The Coast Guard is the closest to an exception, but that is just because they are suppose to patrol coastal waters and such.
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