That's why they put in the 2nd amendment Mr. Biden(or shoeless Joe, whatever), so we could protect ourselves from muggers and rapists. Unfortunately to many our our states and the feds have pissed away our gun rights to a large extent. Therefore, many women, and men, are going about unarmed while criminals are armed at will. Police can never protect us Joe, they are not crime preventers they are crime investigators and always arrive on the scene after the fact.
If you would put in a rider in the jobs bill that all gun laws in every state are now null and void and use part of the money to buy new firearms for us law abiding citizens, I just might ask my congressman to vote for it.
God made man. Colonel Colt made them equal.