I've never needed a gun to protect myself and my loved ones. Nor has the big bad government ever offered to do it for me. Sometimes there's a middle ground between two extremes.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'