I'm not sure your approach to Star Wars is the right one (this seems to mostly be providing suggestions in the sequel trilogy time so that's how I have framed my response). In America it is (depending on where you live, varying levels of) easy to acquire a weapon which you could easily use to kill many people and yet most Americans are not afraid enough to hide in the way you suggest because they trust state sponsored violence to defend them against potential threats.
In Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine does the equivalent of 3d print a bunch of assault rifles for his cultists and is planning to send them out to cause chaos. But the only reason he has a real chance at this is because the government is still completely destabilized from an act of war by the First Order (the destruction of the Hosnian system in The Force Awakens) ~a year earlier. So the real solution is a more resilient state and military apparatus. The government needs to be prepared that much of it could be destroyed in a moment, similar to how the US government has preparations for if someone detonates a nuclear weapon on US soil. It also needs to be willing to retaliate, not with mutually assured destruction, but with the equivalent of a police investigation and detention of individual actors or in conventional warfare for state actors (Starkiller base literally left a glowing red line across space from the weapon to the target, should have been pretty easy to find by any surviving Republic fleet)
I think we are in at least partial agreement that the government at least should have been more decentralized, if the Jedi council could conduct meetings by hologram, the galactic government can do the same.
I think a major difference is that assault weapons can be screened for and searched for in contexts where they can cause harm or you can wall yourself off from their immediate impact, and this feels closer to adapting to a world in which bad actors can easily acquire a nuke. At the very least, I would not want to live in a mass population center high on anyone's target list, and I would expect secure off the grid housing to become highly valued.
I'm not sure your approach to Star Wars is the right one (this seems to mostly be providing suggestions in the sequel trilogy time so that's how I have framed my response). In America it is (depending on where you live, varying levels of) easy to acquire a weapon which you could easily use to kill many people and yet most Americans are not afraid enough to hide in the way you suggest because they trust state sponsored violence to defend them against potential threats.
In Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine does the equivalent of 3d print a bunch of assault rifles for his cultists and is planning to send them out to cause chaos. But the only reason he has a real chance at this is because the government is still completely destabilized from an act of war by the First Order (the destruction of the Hosnian system in The Force Awakens) ~a year earlier. So the real solution is a more resilient state and military apparatus. The government needs to be prepared that much of it could be destroyed in a moment, similar to how the US government has preparations for if someone detonates a nuclear weapon on US soil. It also needs to be willing to retaliate, not with mutually assured destruction, but with the equivalent of a police investigation and detention of individual actors or in conventional warfare for state actors (Starkiller base literally left a glowing red line across space from the weapon to the target, should have been pretty easy to find by any surviving Republic fleet)
I think we are in at least partial agreement that the government at least should have been more decentralized, if the Jedi council could conduct meetings by hologram, the galactic government can do the same.
I think a major difference is that assault weapons can be screened for and searched for in contexts where they can cause harm or you can wall yourself off from their immediate impact, and this feels closer to adapting to a world in which bad actors can easily acquire a nuke. At the very least, I would not want to live in a mass population center high on anyone's target list, and I would expect secure off the grid housing to become highly valued.
"it’s possible that nearly everyone would have been a wizard or witch (or additional gender options not covered by J.K. Rowling) by now."
This made me snort.