"Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the……" — James Bovard

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians… - James Bovard

"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..."

— James Bovard

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