>> Many politicians, activists, wealthy donors, ... are de facto opposed to self-defense but they at least have to pay lip service to it. Unless you consider h

>> Many politicians, activists, wealthy donors, ... are de facto opposed to self-defense but they at least have to pay lip service to it. Unless you consider hiring (or working with tax-payer funded) armed protection a form of self-defense. Then they're very pro-self-defense. "Gun control" in America is a euphemism for "gun consolidation". We don't believe weapons of war belong in middle/lower-class people's homes, but they sure as hell belong in every patrol car and on the streets of countries whose oil we want to control.