That is why it fell. After 75 years of promises they stopped believing the commies would ever deliver prosperity. The KGB and the army couldn't stop it even though the people were not for the most part armed. And being heavily armed didn't help the branch Davidians at Waco or Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Guns don't change society, people do.
Guns just make a bloody mess out of it.
People of different eras live in different circumstances. Seems I already said that. Some were both. Just as now. You'd probably be one of the first they'd look at if that's the case.