No, no, no! It's better to keep the populace compliant and subservient. If you allow them to be armed, they may rise up and depose you.
A better option is to discourage any kind of resistance to aggression even though there may be innocents robbed and killed.
Be not fooled. Gun control isn't about safety or the children or anything except that the government has the power and doesn't want you to have it.
Terry