Gun bans are an attempt to confiscate the right of self-defense.  Politicians perennially react to the police’s total failure to control crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens.  In a nutshell, gun bans mean that because criminals abuse guns, law-abiding citizen have no right to defend themselves.

James Bovard
Lost Rights
ISBN 0-312-12333-7
Copyright 1994, 1995