If they are so civilized, why do they have to threaten the populace at gunpoint to disarm? Civility is having the means to end someone else's life, and not usi

If they are so civilized, why do they have to threaten the populace at gunpoint to disarm? Civility is having the means to end someone else's life, and not using it. I assure you, there is nothing more inherently civil about a government that refuses it's citizenry the right to arms.