We can t even stop millions of human beings from coming into this country illegally and a handgun is a lot smaller than a person. That basic reality is not changed by politicians and media loudmouths who appeal to emotions and symbolism by crying out for more gun laws. You can always pass feel-good laws and ignore their actual consequences. In fact, we have already done too much of that on too many other issues. The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves.
Affluent homeowners pay to have private armed security patrols cruising their neighborhoods.
Many of them are also for gun control. If anybody should be allowed guns, those in low-income neighborhoods should. We need to get more guns into the hands of law-abiding citizens wherever they live. The Legitimate Use of Power Protects Life Simply put, in civil society power is a deterrent to evil. The fact is, however, for nearly four decades not a single American was harmed by a Soviet nuclear weapon and not a single Russian citizen was harmed by an American nuclear weapon.