THE MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT OF DISPARITY OF FORCE

Some of the starry-eyed idealists among the gun prohibitionists ask wistfully, “Imagine a world where no one could have a gun.” We don’t need to imagine it. Neanderthals versus Cro-Magnons. The Dark Ages. Worlds where the strong brutalized and tyrannized the weak, and whomever assembled the largest gang savagely extorted or exterminated those they outnumbered. […]