I think it has to do with that, yes, but also with common sense vs emotion.
I hate gun control laws. They were first formed to be racist, they still ARE racists, and they were used by Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot to prevent their Great leap foward, their revolutions, and their re-education camps.
The most important right we had over people was our rights to carry weapons to protect ourselves.
http://www.blackmanwithagun.com/ - AWESOME site. Very informative, and also has links to the facts he used.