“... a civil respectable society has its citizenry armed.”
Remember, too, that Brits aren’t citizens, at least in the US sense of the word. They are subjects, without Constitutionally protected rights that are a hallmark of US style citizenship.
And that means precisely bugger all in the grand scheme of things. I’m sure you reckon we have to doff our caps to the Upper Class Gentlemen and Ladies, with lots of ‘Fankyou Sirs’, ‘whatever you say Sir’, ‘please sir, got a tuppence for my drink, Sirs?’
In practical terms, we enjoy more or less similar rights to those in the US, given that much of the laws were based around the Magna Carta. Which is, to those of you who don’t do real history, as in Hollywood and the Great American Rip Off, quite important.