Couple of basic historic points here, first the British Monarchy in 1776 was not particularly tyranical by the standards of the day, life in the US was pretty much the same as life in the UK and Canada both before and after the revoloution (unless you were Black).
Second it was not guns in the hands of the population that freed the US, it was guns in the hands of the French, at the time the US decided to revolt (which incidently was after the UK had cleared out the French and subdued the natives, didn't hear any complaints about that awefull George the Third while there was a threat from those quarters in N America) the UK was locked in a death struggle with France, were it not for that the US would have faced the full might of the British Empire and would not have fallen, it is actually a measure of how liberal and untyranical the british empire was that after they had dealt with France the UK didn't decide to use its overwhelming superiority to retake the US after 1815.
It is also ironic for all the talk of tyranny and freedom the only people that were really affected by the revoloution were the blacks, had the British actually put some effort into keeping N America slavery would have ended in the late 18th century and blacks would not had to endure 200 more years of slavery lynching and Jim Crow disenfranchisement.
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