The risk isn't active oppression by the military. The risk is that the government will prevent the police from defending opposition groups or anyone who is poli

The risk isn't active oppression by the military. The risk is that the government will prevent the police from defending opposition groups or anyone who is politically inconvenient. Even in Venezuela most of the violence toward opposition supporters comes from non-government "Colectivos" made of government supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela) Even in the US, the San Jose PD is currently facing a lawsuit for corralling people attending a Trump rally into a mob of violent protesters (Hernandez v. San Jose). The SJPD is arguing that attending a Trump rally is an inherently unsafe act so they have no obligation to protect the citizens there. So it's very easy for NRA supporters to imagine say the California government turning a blind eye to assaults on their homes.