This is quite backwards. Right now revolts in France are useless. When they were useful back in the days, a lot of citizens had guns. Guns laws changed to reduce their powers

They are not useless in the sense that they are visible and at some point the state cannot only respond with more violence from police force forever or else the dictatorship becomes assumed.

But current protests aren't revolts nor violence anyway. There is side/peripheral violence but that is not the point of the protests

Revolts don’t need guns. Look at Nepal. Look at Bangladesh. Look at the Arab spring.

When people are so pissed off that millions of people take to the streets governments fall.