When the SHTF globally, we’ll be the ones who can defend ourselves. It’ll be too late for other good but naive people who trusted bureaucrats with their freedom and security.
An unarmed person is one or two steps from serfdom in good times and a slave when things go south.
At the same time there are some really hard-a**ed traditional dictatorships where the difference between someone who is armed and someone who isn't is simply the price of an RPG and a few rounds suitable to that weapon. There the traditional culture equates freedom to weaponry.
Can't say they are wrong!