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To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

we’ll have to reclaim the ward ‘taxes.’ Why has it become a synonym for ‘evil’? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren’t nothing. … Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren’t nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren’t nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren’t vaporous apparitions either.

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police’s abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals’ rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work – slow, inefficient, and unreliable.