I love 'em, and I don't think they're evil. Anymore than a screwdriver or a hammer or a wirewrap tool is evil.... Love Howard in general, he's been a great help to us in the WOT, but it's so typical of a pol to ascribe 'evil' to guns, whereas the most foul human being on earth is probably just misunderstood....
I recently had cause to be contacted by authorities who asked if I might feel safer with police patrols outside my house or, should the need arise, a brief relocation to somewhere unfindable.
You can't put an entire nation on the Witness Protection Program. You can either allow its citizens to defend themselves or you can abandon them. And if your government says to you "it's too unsafe for everyone for you to have a gun, but we'll protect you from everything you might need one for" and then they don't, that is abandonment and the parties making that promise ought to be held responsible for the lie that they knew it was when they made it.
Evil? How dare you insult the feelings of my firearms! Guess I'd better head to the vault and give each one a nice, long hug.