How is that related? If your own government, for some reason, decided to kill you, there's not much you can do against a heavily armed SWAT team, with or without your small firearm. And if by this argument you mean that owning firearms en masse somehow keep government in line and ensures democracy, that's a moot point, since there are even (arguably) better functioning democracies than USA all over the world that chose to ban firearms completely except for military/antiterorist use.