Guns put teeth into liberty.
It’s difficult to have an uprising with another weapon.
It always comes down to the PERSON. A gun doesn’t hop into your pocket and shoot people by itself. The same applies to a knife, rock or any other weapon. So banning guns won’t stop murders.
Nope, but it sure makes resisting tyranny a lot harder. And those in Washington are not stupid, evil but not stupid, so they are fully aware of the facts.
“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”