[Gordon Pym]

Criminals are predators that prefer "soft targets". Weakness invites predators, and advocating a policy against self-defense is merely an invitation to such predators.

If the government beuracrats didn't secretly believe this they wouldn't hide their offices behind bullet proof glass and state police bodyguards

[RicocheT]

To pick up a tax form at a privately owned building in which the IRS has its local office, I have to go through a metal detector and past armed guards. That shows there is a perception of danger for the bureaucrats.

Those federal bureaucrats and our state bureaucrats are not in favor of we citizens having similar protection in our private lives. We citizens are always one vote away from laws ending our right of self protection. Be vigilant.