Tyranny also happens on a smaller scale.
Battle of Athens
You also have other events that have been previously posted showing that when Gov't cannot respond the ability to use a firearm for self defense of yourself and others occurs.
1992 Riots and Korean-Americans
There's other events but I don't see any of this swaying any of those holding the opposing view.
I dislike analogies but compare this to drunk driving and the deaths that occur there. More people are killed by that combination in the US annually than by Firearms. So why not apply the same logic as is trying to be applied to firearms? After all its not the firearm committing the crime but the person holding/using it? More laws banning vehicles or alcohol?
No...that's stupid. Prosecute the hell out of offenders right? There are ways to counter the crazy but somehow creating law or measures that focus on the bad actors in this are never attractive to those who have some loathing for guns and those who enjoy and use them lawfully.
Fact is the Right to Own firearms is protected by the 2nd Amendment. That's a fact, not a wish. If you want it changed then do it the right way and work to amend the Constitution. Not by Executive Order, not by Judicial Activism and not by ridiculously restrictive controls and taxation.