Arms prevent government genocide, it has been shown over and over again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously wrote:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests ... people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
This, of course, would have been much more effective with firearms. Do not think Stalinesque purges cannot happen here! No one thought the civilized Germany of the 1930's and 1940's could possibly murder their own.
And to prevent us from becoming weakened, by disarmament, we will fight, by force of arms, to keep our arms.
Then the pograms are much less likely or possible.
Do not doubt our resolve, sir. Do not doubt us.
But that's exactly why they want to take our guns, they like genocide.