This is why. And also why all rules that make it more difficult to do so need to be stricken from the books. The meme that drove the creation of the thousands of gun control laws and regulations has time and again been proven to be wrong, and that governments at all levels were wrong to create such laws.
BY DANA CRISWELL
The crime rate in Memphis, TN soared in 2014. WREG reported that last year saw an exceptionally high rate of crime. About 130 murders, 320 rapes, 6,900 aggravated assault calls, and 3,000 robberies. The most shocking is the murder rate, which is up 17 percent from last year.
The gun control lobby tell us that “Private citizens don’t need firearms because the police will protect them from crime,” but is that the truth?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled many times that the police have no “duty to protect” citizens. The fact is, They don’t even have to come when you call. The police owe no legal duty to protect individual citizens from criminal attack. The District of Columbia’s highest court spelled out plainly the “fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.”
http://www.mississippigunnews.com/2015/03/why-i-carry-a-gun-crime-is-up-and-police-are-down/