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Yes, combined with a strong community focus such as in Rojava or Zapatista Chiapas you can see how this play out.
Such extreme acts as you are describing are rarities that most people will never experience or see in their life. Not having access to firearms has not prevented such acts in the past, nor have the police. Being able to protect yourself from them would be far more beneficial if that was a genuine concern of ones.
That's a really wrong assessment.
Extreme acts without gun: punches, maybe knifes. One person hurts one other person.
Extreme acts with guns: one person shoots down 35 other people.
Not having firearms DID in fact prevent such killings. See any country without mass gun ownership
People with knives can kill much more than just one person. I was reading a story a few days ago about a village somewhere in SEA where a man killed his family and neighbors long before anyone ever got to him.
Likewise countries with high gun ownership can also not have frequent mass killings. What you're really describing there is just America.
An armed populace can do more to resist a fascist or otherwise oppressive government than an unarmed one. As a minority who has historically (and contemporarily in other countries) been persecuted by my state and still is ac for the crime of existing, I don't feel comfortable leaving my life in their fickle hands.