I read your question this way, would I prefer my children’s future to look like East Berlin or a trash heap in Bangladesh? Clearly, East Germany would be preferable, under any circumstance. Of course the idea is to fight to prevent these miserable options, but that’s how I see your two scenarios.
It’s not “a very important issue”, it’s the only issue. As far as gun control goes, anyone tries to take them and the war starts right then and they know it.