Politicians

I don't even think the obvious point needs stated, but here it is anyway: Legal restrictions only impact people that follow laws in the first place!

But, aargh, as painful as it is to say, I don't think politicians are altogether dumb enough to believe it will. I think they know that they're repressing law-abiding individuals and that these ridiculously restrictive gun control laws are only there to increase their control of the populace.

People need to be able to own guns for two reasons: Protection from other people, and protection from oppressive government. Our representatives in government should be protecting us from oppression but instead are imposing new restrictions on we lower mortals as a first step on the road to a place we really don't want to go.