Gun ownership control against tyranny of a Government has no relevance.
Private guns against Government guns is a no contest.
Unless you are keen to go out in a bullet blaze of glory - gun ownership does not increase your survival chances.
Government tyranny and control develops slowly - in the minds of people. If you have a gun you will be isolated and disarmed. One by one.
I see people terrorized by police in the USA now. People shot because police think they have a gun.
Massacres that are happening in gun toting countries - you cannot convince people in such a society that their guns are responsible for it.
How effective is any resistance against a modern equipped army with handguns and rifles ? The weapons that are effective are already banned in the US.
Anyone got an RPG ? Surface to air missiles? armed aircraft ? Machinegun made after 1986 ?
One of my US friends told me his neighbor shot herself yesterday. Suicide by gun (by far the easiest method) is 46 times higher in the USA than in the United Kingdom.
Lack of gun control means:
More gun crime
More accidental gun deaths
More gun suicides
More police shootings
Increased likelihood of an armed intruder in your home.
Proper gun control means:
People with mental health issues do not have access to guns. Criminals do not have easy access to guns. People should not need have to have guns for "protection". (It would imply that criminals have access to guns)
A perfectly sane person should be able to have recreational use of a gun. Tank ? Hell yeah - I want one of those.
Man, this really is an endless debate. You make a very good point about civilian guns vs. government guns. If you imagine a guy with a pistol vs. the army, then he probably doesn't have much of a chance. The fact that countries with more guns have more gun violence, suicide by gun, and cops killing people who look like they might have a gun, but don't, that's more than enough for me to not want to life in a country with a big gun culture. Do you think there's a solution for the US? How could you make it less of a gun country? Wouldn't it be hard to get rid of the mass amount of weapon that are already out there?