There is more to the story.
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror https://a.co/d/aI64KZp
Discussion
I am well aware of the roll America played, I lived though it and watched it happen. Nothing you said, nothing in that book alters one word of what I said.
The book presents a different reason for the students' protests and it had more to with their opposition to our government than to their own. Carter granting asylum to the Shah (albeit for medical/mercy reasons) was the flashpoint, at least according to the author. Given the track record of US meddling there, I don't think their concerns were unjustified (let alone "idiotic").
That said, I'm in agreement with the main point of your post: never give up your firearms.
Of course but again it changes nothing about what I said.