How ironic it would be that someday these nutcakes would be in a position whereas their first thought would be "Damn, wish I had a gun..."
Rest assured, they will have them, or at least bodyguards with them. It's the common people who won't and will thus be at the mercy of criminal thugs, criminal governments, and terrorist Jihadies.
Handguns are like lawyers -- everyone claims to hate 'em, until they suddenly need one.