Not wanting to interrupt the debate ;-) but if you want to talk about bearing arms, you need to look at who has the most worth defending as well. The very latest peer-reviewed study puts the top 5 countries in the world for quality of life as France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. 4 of those countries have far more rigid gun control than the US. The other makes it a requirement that male citizens receive military training and retain their firearm. That country has low crime rates, as do its neighbors in the top 5 with far stricter gun regulations. The point would seem to be that firearm regulations don't make as much difference to crime/quality of life as people seem to think: clearly other qualities matter more.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1