The liberal gun control people have not read the US constitution.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms" James Madison, The Federalist Papers
""The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed" Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers.
The men who crafted the Bill of Rights included a codified, permanent acknowledgement of the right Thomas Jefferson articulated in the Declartion of Independence to "...alter or to abolish it(the existing government) and to institute new Government..."
At the onset of the Revolution, citizen militia outnumbered Colonial 'Regulars' more than two to one, and of the 200,000-plus individuals that fought in the War, more than half were simply men grabbing their rifle and heading out the door. During Revolutionary times, it should be noted that while 'quality' may have varied, the citizen militia possessed the same design of firearm that the Redcoats had. Were the Colonials armed with sowords, the British whould have shot them to pieces.
England and Australia are island nations. There is no nearby place for illegal guns to come from. Yet in both countries violent crime has gone UP since their gun bans.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." RA Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon.1942.
If there is one enemy of the people, one enemy which has in the last century murdered hundreds of millions of its own citizens, it is the state. The founding fathers knew this and that is why they wrote the 2nd ammendment. If anyone has any doubt as to its necessity, let him count the number of Soviet citizens killed by their state or the number of Chinese citizens killed by their own government. The list of such crimes goes on. Those who wish to take away the people's right to own arms, wish to enslave the people. Liberals believe that the nanny state will take care of us. We would do much better taking care of ourselves.