You might also consider that the United States is the result of several hundreds of years of self selection for people from Europe who did not much care for European social structure.

That we should believe that the means to self defense are a right belonging to the people, not a privilege granted by the King, should surprise no one.

That today's Europeans and our self selected elites believe that firearms should be denied the common people and be solely the privilege of their class should also surprise no one.