"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" - The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  60 to 100 million people were tortured to death and murdered by the bolsheviks, the same people who are trying to disarm Americans now because they thought exactly like you do.  Answering the door with a gun is the only way to do it now that the genocide is about to kick off in earnest.