Better practice your quick draw skills. Isaac Azimov’s Cave of Steel shows a 3 Musketeers like society in which only the blade or the pistol affords social order.
And just to underline the 2nd...every citizen should be forced to "bear arms"...see how the control freaks like living under a "law" THEY don't like like we had to.
“An armed society is a polite society.” - Heinlein.