If my right to brandish arms was stripped from me, I'd, personally, be a criminal, as opposed to a, generally, law-abiding citizen... which is what I am now.
Instead of having to right to own a gun that's registered with my government, and allowing my government the ability to correspond that gun and any bullets fired from it to me, personally - I would make a point to have one illegally.
The ability for the citizen to protect liberties with lethal force is a necessity in a "Republic."
Anything less is a "police state."
Besides, is taking away everyone's right to drive a car a legitimate answer to solving for the deaths at the hands of drunk drivers every year?
If not, why do people apply that same logic with "gun control?" It seems idiotic.