James Bovard Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. 1956
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable...
topic: Gun, Government, Self, Law Abiding Citizen, Police Protection, Gun Law, Unreliable, Government Work
