I like this quote about the
Violence Policy Center:
"(The VPC is) a small anti-gun think-tank supported by grants from liberal-left foundations and wealthy benefactors who can afford their own armed bodyguards, but prefer a disarmed peasantry".
Source: Dr. Michael S. Brown, a member of Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws
That sums up our 'intellectual and moral superiors' and the rest of the left quite well. They can use firearms for protection, yet the rest of us can't.
but prefer a disarmed peasantry
A totalitarian socialist state is much easier to maintain if the masses are unarmed.