Personal Security
We are told that "Sen. Orrin Hatch was deputized as a special deputy U.S. marshal in 1993 so he could carry a gun after receiving death threats."
So, back in 1993 it was officially recognized that being personally armed was a legitimate means of providing for one's safety, yet here it is 2017, almost a quarter of a century later, and we still have laws making innocent citizens sitting ducks for people, like this feral left-winger, that have no respect for the law.
If there could have been a few law-abiding armed citizens scattered around that ballpark in Alexandria, Virginia, the miscreant would probably not have gotten off more than one round.
/fl