isn't that fantasy precisely how the black panthers achieved their aims?

if anything the problem is that the state would start killing a trans self defence party.

edit: what i'm trying to say is that we should distinguish between three things. one is someone under the very real risk of persecution buying a gun, another is those someones and their allies forming self defence groups, and then there's the real fantasy where if everyone had a gun then we would have no reason to deal with the structural problems that turn atomized societies into low level civil wars. that fantasy is generally held by people who aren't endangered by the state the way trans people and racial minorities are.