our founding father’s can answer your question. Read these quotes:
Here is what our founding fathers and others, had to say about gun control and freedom… Read and learn.

“They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as
they are injurious to others.” -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the
State of Virginia (1781-1785).

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except
for a few public officials.” -George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at
425-426.

“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States)
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may
exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be
at all times armed.” -Thomas Jefferson.

“(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which
Americans possess over the people of almost every other
nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people
with arms.” -James Madison.

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make
things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an
unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed
man.” -Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria.

“Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual
discretion…in private self defense…” -John Adams, A defense
of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471 (1788).

“…arms…discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe,
and preserve order in the world as well as property. …Horrid
mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of
them.” -Thomas Paine.

“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us
carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was
adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and
instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text,
or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it
was passed.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June
12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p322.

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of
government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by
slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson,
Bill for the More General diffusion of Knowledge (1778).

“To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to
enslave them…” -George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380.

“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that
they be properly armed.” -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
Papers at 184-8.

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that
force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be
armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.: -Patrick Henry.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death!” -Patrick Henry

“To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the
people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when
young, how to use them…” -Richard Henry Lee writing in Letters
from the Federal Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788).

“The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress
to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable
citizens, from keeping their own arms.” -Samuel Adams, debates &
Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, 86-87.

“…the people have a right to keep and bear arms.” -Patrick
Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185.

“The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be
infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people,
trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free
country…” -James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8,
1789).

“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people
themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms.”
-Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer
(1788) at 169.

“The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied
males at least 17 years of age…” -Title 10, Section 311 of the
U.S. Code. (see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/)

“The people are nor to be disarmed of their weapons. They are
left in full possession of them.” -Zachariah Johnson, 3 Elliot,
Debates at 646.

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” -Thomas
Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers,
334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950).

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that
original right of self defense which is paramount to all
positive forms of government…”- Alexander Hamilton, The
Federalist (#28).

“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before
them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which
must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert
their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people
are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear
their private arms.” -Tench Coxe, Remarks on the First Part of
the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, under the
pseudonym “A Pennsylvanian” in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette,
June 18, 1989 at col. 1.

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been
recognized by the General Government; but the best security of
that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for
martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free
citizens of these States…Such men form the best barrier to the
liberties of America.” -gazette of the United States, October
14, 1789.

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as
they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in
America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the
whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any
pretense, raised in the United States.” -Noah Webster, An
Examination into the Leading Principles of the federal
Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets to the Constitution of
the United States (P. Ford, 1888).

“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he
isn’t fit to live.” -Martin Luther King Jr., June 23, 1963.
Speech in Detroit.

Statements of The Enemies of Liberty:

“Government begins at the end of the gun barrel.” – Chairman Mao

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass
searches and hold executions for found arms.” –V.I. Lenin.

“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to
disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” –Joseph Stalin.

“We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture
a whole new class of guns.” – Jose Cerada, (White House official
who specializes in gun control policy), The Los Angeles Times

“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of
ordinary Americans …” Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993,
page 2A)

Do you really have to OWN or rent a HOME to have the right to own a firearm?