In my country people are defenseless against the will of the goverment, because they aren't allow to own guns legally. In spite of that, violence levels aren't as low as we expect from a country in wich only the goverment got acces to firearms, also public records of criminal behaviour aren't available for independent auditing, and the proportion of jailed people is one of the biggest on the area. That's the future you may expect if guns are taked from the people, I hope such a great nation will never have to suffer something like that!