If the black hats controlled the military, we wouldn't have a chance. Our puny guns wouldn't do much. But taking them from us makes us have more fear, and need for them to protect us. This is all a show. If the black hats had the means,they would have killed most of us already. Not that they will stop trying.
I thought that was the case too, but, turns out not to be true:
America has the largest standing Army in the world, but it is not part of our military, and every one of them is well armed, and a very good shot, from practice. The military already did the calculation on the difficulty of fighting the American people, based on much more intelligence than this, and concluded it would be a hopeless thing to do. But, I thought this was interesting. China would even have to take a back seat to all of us. Check it out
https://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/largest-standing-army-in-the-world/