I’m in Canada, myself. We have far fewer options for meaningful resistance, and a telling percentage here quite like being defenseless wards of the state. Arsenals or no, organization and logistics would still be a big deal, and it’s easier to get it in place now than later.
True, that. People forget the Street Gangs would likely be the Storm Troopers of the New Left, and that they are organized, not squeamish about being brutal nor violent, and established all over.
If we don't want to be blitzkreiged, we'd best have our ducks in a row before the SHTF. Contingency planning.