OK, that's just what every totalitarian government in the world says... right before they eliminate the competition. Here's one famous rendition: "Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state." -- Heinrich Himmler. The RIGHT answer can even be found in the mouth of a famous Democrat: "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." -- Senator Hubert H. Humprey (D-Minnesota)