The right to keep and bear arms is a vital prerogative bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers. Their care and foresight, enshrined in our Constitution's Second Amendment, lets us defend ourselves, our families, or even our Nation, technologically. Recently some have fogged the picture. The disarmers say that we should impose gun control, as though otherwise, firearms would fire spontaneously and aimlessly. That sounds like a plot by Stephen King.
Gun control is a euphemism for personal disarmament.
Its proponents would forbid private ownership of firearms. They forget that firearms are tools, that tools do only what users make them do, and that responsibility for what a tool does goes to its user. To avert human trauma, the disarmers would forbid guns altogether. This would almost preclude our meeting mortal threats with deadly force. That, in turn, would achieve an important pacifist goal.