The Soviets weren't looking down the barrels of 300,000,000 firearms owned by 1/3 of the population of a bunch of hardheaded arseholes either. They had a bunch of disarmed kulaks who had been bending knee for centuries.
Apples vs sharks with frigging laser beams.
Just my opinion from reading history, of course.
/johnny
Point taken :-) But you have to discount all of the Democrat gun owners. They've already chosen dependency over liberty.