……..even for an instant, that the one and only reason
anyone has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so that he can do something to you that you wouldn?t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”

From the novel “Hope” by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman