USSR (Stalin), China (Mao), Germany (Hitler), Cambodia (Pat), Iraq (Sadddam), etc all have one thing in common, civilians were stripped of firearms.
Every other dictatorship in the world (Iran, Venezuela, N.Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, Uganda, Italy, etc.) all have one thing in common, no civilians with firearms.
If people do not learn of actual history, they are doomed to repeat it.
And may the liberals be the first to die !