In response to:
1. You may not feel the need to defend your home or business (you rent and own no business), but that doesn't mean that others (e.g. the Korean business owners in the article) agree with you. They would rather die defending their life's work, and they are right to feel that way.
2. If you want to shift the argument from "Tyranny" and "Total Confiscation", you might want to take note that you are the one promoting gun control by decree and total disarmament.
3. Actually, you are wrong. Great Britain has strict gun ownership laws but has a higher violent crime rate per capita than the U.S.
By now, we’ve heard the argument about semi-automatic "assault" rifles: nobody needs one. We’ve heard the only reason why someone would obtain this kind of weapon is so they can kill people, which is far from the truth. We’ve also heard the argument from both the Left and the Right that a pistol is how someone protects their home.
"I really don’t know why people need assault weapons. I’m not a hunter but I understand people who want to hunt," Republican Rep. Peter King said on Morning Joe earlier this week. "I understand people who live in rough neighborhoods...
To a liberal, they could care less that violent crime rates go up as long as the number of people killed by handguns goes down. That's all they see in their alternate reality.