A handgun's only purpose is to fight your way back to your rifle. Citizens have been for all intents and purposes been unable to own or acquire automatic weapons since the 1934 NFA. I agree, it is a joke that firearms will defend The People, they've allowed themselves to be increasingly de-fanged for nearly one hundred years. Firearms are Liberty's Teeth. Liberty is good. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." Broken Window Theory of Economics. The world is a scary place. Removing peoples' ability to protect themselves in it is immoral.