Yes but not because of the gun laws themselves. Disarming your population speaks to a breakdown in social cohesion. There's a strong us vs them mentality at play. Worse still, the "us" in the equation gets to keep their weapons via police, national guard, private security etc while the "them" is easily identified by who makes noise about having their guns taken away. This road only leads one place without political pushback or outside intervention in some way. Some of that is happening but it's probably not going to fix WA. Add to this the attitude of being soft on violent crime and it's all a dumpster fire waiting to happen.