Whatever the history that led up to it may have been, the result was a corrupt, tyrannical government, that had all the weapons, while the people had none; and what this has led to is the same thing that history has repeatedly shows us happens, when government has all the weapons, and the people have none.
Well, no guy, the history is kind of important.
For instance, Nazi Germany didn't have "gun control." In fact, the Nazi repealed most of the Weimar Republic's gun laws. No Germans used them to fight the Nazis. In fact, they took those guns and joined the
Volksgrenadiers as the Allies closed in on Germany. (And promptly go mowed down because the Allies had tanks and bombers and shit.) Not one German rushed out of his house with a gun and said to the SS, "You can't take Goldstein, Goldstein is my friend". Because people are basically cowards.
Conversely, when the American government rounded up 110,000 innocent Japanese Americans during World War II, not one white person rushed out with his gun and said, 'You can't take Ito, Ito is my friend!!"
Guns don't protect you from the government. If the government wants you dead bad enough, they will find a way to make you dead, and usually with everyone else cheering on.
As much as I despised Trump, I wasn't that worried he be able to impose dictatorship on us, as much as he probably wanted to. Too many checks and balances.
I do worry that I might be in a shopping mall or theater or a park and some nut will come in with gun and start shooting up the place because he hears voices in his head.
