First of all, Wrong-songer, there has been little intention voiced to ban guns. It should be obvious even to you that even the present rights as practiced would not prevent the trillion-dollar DoD from rounding up the American population if treachery of that magnitude ever became possible. Even our assault rifles would be a puny defense. But more important the countries you mention did not have a two-hundred year-old constitutional republic.

So what do you think would have to happen for an American government to get into power that would then want to tyrannize the people of fifty States? And to what end? Why would they even want to? The probabilities arte so thin that this combination of events could occur that the event has to be classified as a paranoid delusion, the kind of thing that nutballs sweat in their perfervid dreams about.

Assault weapons should be banned from non-professional law and miitary uses and ownership.

Licensing and background checks should be in place for automatic weapons of any caliber.

Let our stalwart defense against government intrusion be a furious defense of civil rights, freedom of speech and protection of personal privacy. A restoration of Constitutional freedoms in these areas will do far, far more to defend you against the Government than any explosive weapon, after all. The government coerces people, when it does so, by threats and fear. If we have a justice system and a system of free speech and other civil rights, we have grounds to make them fear rather than the other way around. And if a government has usurped THOSE powers, guns will not be a protection anyway.

All this said, I support the private ownership of handguns, not for defense against the Government, but for occasional defense against lunatics, such as recites the kind of reasoning you offer above.