While you are still allowed to every patriot must buy a gun

[GJGCA]

19. RW author, but...

...mutatis mutandi, I think it applies.

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 good-bye to his family?

From Gulag Archipelago