When it comes down to, “If you withhold your weapons, we will withhold medical care,” that will be a strong message for compliance. With today’s “background checks,” Big Bertha Government knows what weapons the citizen possesses. All they have to do is say, “We know you have it, so turn it over.” If you or your family needed treatment, tough luck if you refused.
Once all the guns are confiscated, the sky is the limit for the totalitarians.
But sick people don’t have much fight in them. Your gun is no use if a desperate mob can just set your house on fire with you in it, especially if they catch you sleeping. Then there’s betrayal. The Ebola is something to take advantage of, because a great number of people who would be threats can be pressured to comply to save their own lives. If a lot of people are sick and dying, you also have no guarantee that you will have a unified defense. There’s also the danger of vulnerability to nuclear weapons, which would kill over 80 percent I the U.S. population just from the hits. Conventional warfare against the U.S. is borderline suicide softening them up first, not so much.