Not analogous at all. Here we have a dependency class who will be completely sold out to fedzilla, doing such things as reporting to the ‘authorities’ whom they know or suspect to have weapons and food aplenty. The government will have lots of help from the dependency class and may even be recruiting them to go into neighborhoods for door-to-door ‘checking’. Evil is rising with a mighty roar in America. Watch your six ...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thin o. king: What would things have been like if , 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, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, 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! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
Everybody’s hear the horror stories about neighbors like that. Your point is well-taken.
And at some point, people aren't going to be sitting home waiting for a knock on the door.
/johnny