There’s been debate about this topic for decades and it’s always easy to make lofty moral judgements after the fact. The Nazis were so insanely determined to exterminate the Jews that I don’t think one life would have been saved had Auschwitz been flattened. The Jews would have died in sealed boxcars or else been murdered elsewhere.
Ah, to live, disarmed in a total, socialist state, democratic or otherwise. People are integers, resources, property as everything else, of the state.
This is why, every and any citizen that wants a military weapon, or weapons should have them. I don’t care how many high school kids get killed every year.
Nothing kills, steals, murders like humans in service of the state.