"Arms did not solve the slaves problems, rather peaceful protest..." I guess you are unfamiliar with a little dust up known as the American Civil War? That was no "peaceful protest"; and if you think it was marches, boycotts and sit ins (None of which involved slaves) that made the difference in the Black Civil Rights Movement, you are ignoring the fact that it took the arms of the National Guard and the threat of government violence to secure that movement and make events like the forced integration of the University of Mississippi, possible. The first gun control law in this country was to prevent Black slaves from having any sort of weapons. That law was necessary to establish and maintain chattel slavery.