User blog comment:Rocket Engineer/On the U.S. Constitution/@comment-25330335-20170613012134/@comment-26119768-20170614022621

I'm not sure what you mean. If someone was attempting to set themselves up as a king (or something), then the fact that citizens owned guns would be a rather large obstacle to that goal.

Unfortunately I can't find any good statistics on UK vs US murder rates, because of differences in how each country lists and catalogues them. However, the UK certainly has its share of public safety issues, even if they don't involve guns. Perhaps gun control does make a country safer, but personally, I feel the price of continued freedom is worth it.