It matters.
It matters a lot.
Government is influenced by We the People in more ways than just in the polls, from our wallets, in the Press, etc. Government is influenced when We the People are armed as well as our own national military's troops. That absolutely matters a lot, when our government takes this into consideration, because, and this is my point---it matters when We the People are not thusly armed. That's when all the 666 stuff happened, and that's when it still happens. Governments make wrong choices when the lethality of their people is null. They make better choices when we are armed to the hilt. So writ large wrt human history, "gun control" (iow any government violation of the right to bear arms) is devastating wrt murders, murderers, and murder victims, when calmly and collectedly viewed in direct comparison with what the Second Amendment plainly instructs the US government to do: The US government is instructed to do nothing, wrt 'gun control' of any kind. Strip down everything but the simple sentence formed from just the operative words---the, right, shall, not be infringed. = no gun control!
We sit here and we ponder annual murder rates. If we're honest. Otherwise we might ponder suicides by gun as evidence that gun control is a good idea (to say nothing of its obvious invalidity wrt the Constitution).
Gun control kills, because its direct opposite the right to bear arms, prevents the worst killings ever seen. It's the most important right that there is, and the US is the last best chance that humanity has of protecting this most important facet of the very right to life.