You should have told him, “It will only take one pissed off patriot to shot a round into your Nazi head. Anger is a stronger emotion than fear.”
I’ve noticed over the years that when these “people” talk about gun confiscation they are really only talking about confiscating from law-abiding-citizens never from the thugs and inner city “war zones”.
After all why go after the tough targets when there are easier ones nearby? That is until the Easier ones prove not to be so easy after all.