I can't find the details, but I recently read of a county sheriff that told a state legislature that if they passed a law that would end up requiring him to sen

I can't find the details, but I recently read of a county sheriff that told a state legislature that if they passed a law that would end up requiring him to send deputies to many homes in his territory to confiscate their guns, he would decline to do so, because he thought that it would be a suicide mission. Bottom line, the number of guns in private hands causes many government officials to fear the people. For gun rights advocates this is a feature; for gun control advocates, it's a bug. I think that this is the fundamental divide between the two camps.