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You are comparing a professional army to civilians. Like, hell, if other side has a gun and you don't - you will loose. If you have a gun but other side a tank - you will loose again. The point here is to make the confrontation more equal against people equipped with handguns and not anti-tank missiles.
But, there is 1 thing in what civilians have a leverage - they run most of economy and infrastructure. If we are talking about confrontation between government and civilians, civilians don't even have to use guns. They can simply gather resources and then stop doing anything except surviving for a few days. This means that no factories will be working, no commercial transporting, no offices are running. Yes, this is a very unlikely scenario but it will literally cause huge problems to the country without the violence. And what your army gonna do? Come to you home and force you to go to work?
The other thing is if we are dealing with other armed civilians, then having guns can benefit. But only if you can use them. And yes, you are right that having a gun in home without strict discipline leads to more casualties.
So, what I think is that owning guns has bad and good sides, but you don't even need them in most cases.
And who do you think is going to be coming after you if you build up a militia and start screaming "Wildcats"?
And who do we see, time and time again, side with the fat white kids who crossed state lines to murder some n****rs?
So you might even say