Martial arts, knives and all other means of defense require years of study to master. But firearms require only average manual dexterity and minimal training. To limit the availability of firearms to law-abiding citizens is the real crime. It takes mind-boggling arrogance to look your neighbor in the face and soberly announce that you have determined his or her crime prevention requirements and they don't include firearms you find objectionable. It is equally arrogant to mandate that someone else's gun be rendered useless for defense with the application of trigger locks or gun safes.
Guns are, after all, lifeless hunks of steel.
Without human action they are neither good nor bad. Cynically standing on the bodies of countless crime victims, gun control activists ask you to trust them and surrender your defense to their discredited theories of crime and punishment. Mr. Clinton finds it easy to tell serfs what we need to protect ourselves. Unfortunately, the rest of us reside in the real world. We just pay his bills for protection he would deny to mere peasants.