I have complicated views on this subject, which I'll be happy to express in prose in a suitable venue. However, if this is going to be a debate, it should be at least mentioned that there are songs on the other side, such as Leslie Fish's "They Were Having a Sale at the Gun-Store", which ends

So that was the end of the Jukes boys; the cops had to clean up the mess
So they slandered gun-owning civilians all over the liberal press.
But the victors who might have been victims, though silent, all know this is true:
So long as there's one weapon left in the world, you'd better have you a gun too.