According to the founding fathers (I guess you’re side will just have to call them “gun nuts”) the reason the people need weapons is so they can protect themselves against the state (that would be the police and military).  If you don’t believe me, read what they wrote for yourself.  You can receive this education very inexpensively by purchasing and reading a copy of the Federalist Papers.  What this means of course is that those who want to ban guns and take away the ability of the common man and common woman to protect themselves are nothing less than Un-American.  Not surprising when almost everything else they believe is just pure Marxism.