From Joe Huffman who has the following to say:
As has been said by others, if they don’t want you to have a gun it’s probably because they want to do something to you and you would use the gun to resist..
I am reminded of this quote from Mohandas Gandhi's autobiography:
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
--Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.