If modern man has no use for them, then modern government, run by modern men, don’t need them either.
Tell the modern criminals they don’t need them either.
When both of these threats disarm completely, and cannot rearm, and don’t have armed security keeping them safe, then we may have something to discuss. Until then, they are just disarmists and anti-self-defense.
Whats so pathetic isn’t that articles like this are written. What is pathetic is that they have an audience that thinks “You know what? That’s true. I want to be known as a modern man so I’ll do that too and everyone will look up to me for my wisdom.”