"At yet, the USA suffers from enough gun violence to call it a war zone"
And you want to make sure it is a "One sided" war don't you. All the bad guys have them for all the wrong reasons, why shouldn't we have the right to have them for all the right reasons?
i would bet that if you were confronted by an attacker, gang-banger, thug with a handgun or a knife, you would not turn down the help of a good Samaritan with a handgun would you.