AND why it is so hated by every government employee - especially those who are armed. It shows a limitation to their power over you.
All totalitarian dictators throughout history knew this, and it was their first move to disarm the population they aimed to control. The current want-to-be dictators know this too. That is why the we constantly hear about the backdoor scratching to slowly boil the 2nd amendment frog so they can remove the last Constitutional bastion that is holding them back from lining up all dissenters and loading them onto cattle cars for the "Re-education" camps.
Those who refuse to learn from history are forced to repeat it...
“AND why it is so hated by every government employee...”
I was a gov’t employee for several decades. We’re not all evil minions.