You hold up a paranoid dictatorship that is unthreatened in the world yet keeps it's people in line by having them think they are on the brink of invasion by the rest of the planet so that their lack of food and basic necessities is because they must create "defensive" weapons all the while using the threat of starting a nuclear war so they can negotiate "stuff" to keep the rulers happy as a reasonable, self defense doctrine..
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Hmm, there is no parallel here with a significant number of a the US gun holding population (non paranoid) believing that their Government is on the brink of becoming a dictatorship. Not in any way stating that you have but a fair number of gun owners here and elsewhere have stated that is the reason they have guns.
I am honestly happy and thankful that you are a person who has their guns safely placed to prevent accidents, but without statistics etc I could bet on it that there is a significant number of people that do not do so.