But that, one might say, was long ago and far away. In this century, Black Panthers took shotguns and other firearms into the legislative buildings in Sacramento in protest of the poverty conditions in Oakland. The response of the legislature was to ban the carrying of arms on the grounds of the legislature. Oakland's abject poverty continues. Now that we have women among the legislators, violence on Capitol Hill takes on a new perspective.
Firearms equalize the means of physical terror between men and women.
It is facile to think that the tales of woe and violence spread by victim disarmers are merely deliberate lies designed to frighten the voters into accepting yet another nostrum. But it is also possible that the victim disarmers really do fear great violence. That, when they examine the human soul, they look deep inside it and find only violence, terror and rage. They certainly don't find all that violence, terror and rage by examining the souls of gun owners. Studies have consistently shown that gun owners are better educated and more productive than the population at large.