If anything, Government is in the business of fear. Creating it, instilling it and perpetuating it. Some of what this professor wrote about the NRA could also be said about AARP, NAACP, and dozens of other PC groups.
The right to bear arms affirmed in our Constitution is the one thing that instills fear in government, and that is the key here.
It reminds me of the old joke where a policeman stops a driver for a broken tail light. During the stop he asks about “carrying any weapons, etc.” and the driver responds yes - all legal. Ankle revolver, shoulder holster, side holster, gun in the glove box and console and a shotgun and AR-15 in the trunk he adds.
“That’s a lot of guns. Just what are you afraid of Mr.?”
“Not a damn thing, officer.”
"AGW," anyone?