400,000,000+ privately owned guns make for more firepower than all the armies in the world combined.
I think one has to look at who/how LE is empowered, frankly. If LE is controlled by city government, then yes they are very often far more concerned about keeping their own nests feathered and willing to enforce extra-legal commands from their leftist city mayors, etc.
I look at entities like county sheriffs, etc. as being more responsive to freedom and citizens because they aren’t beholding to city managers, mayors, councils or the like. The Sheriff is elected by the citizenry. I’d far more trust a deputy from that department than I would some LEO being leashed like a lap dog by some puke leftist Mayor like Lori Lightfoot.