Kurt Schlichter on why cities where citizens can’t get gun permits are also cities where citizens don’t intervene to stop street crimes or protect victims:

“You can’t get a gun permit in SF or NY, yet someone expects you to take on a criminal who is not going to observe those legal niceties? How could you expect that? If you want to build a house, you don’t ban tools. If you ban tools, it’s reasonable to assume you don’t want any construction.”

Disarmed citizens tend to degenerate into passive, apathetic subjects who wait for “the authorities” to do something. And if “the authorities” don’t do anything either, you get big-city chaos. Just look around you.