Just because you seem genuinely curious I will say this:

Yeah, it scares the crap out of me too.

I'm queer and very far to the left politically, and my neighbors all have a lot of guns and if you listen to what they say they think that queer leftists deserve to be murdered just out of principle.

I am not under any illusion that firearms make any situation with the government better; I have been assaulted by DHS (pepper spray) and in that situation I am certain that going from being "non-compliant" to "violent" would result in being murdered by the government in short, short order.

However, I am very worried about situations where my neighbors (who are all very well armed and very far to the right and very excited about 'interruptions in regular government') become violent.

There are many, many historical and current precedents for that situation.

So although the best situation would be unilateral disarmament, that isn't going to happen in the rural west of the US.

All that said, what do you think my position is? Owning "sporting rifles" and training on self-defense with my cadre of trans folks and anarchists seems to be the more realistic strategy than just hoping the US doesn't get suddenly worse, especially given the path it has been taking at the federal level.

Personally, I'd much prefer to be running around playing with my ham radios but here we are.