Are gun bans really to protect the people or is there another reason for them?

[blackbird]

""The international gun prohibition lobbies and their United Nations allies insist that there is no personal right of self-defense--that people should be forced to rely exclusively on the government protection. The prohibitionists also insist that there is no human right for people to possess the means of self-defense, such as firearms. But what are people supposed to do when the government itself starts killing people? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, is the direct result of the types of gun laws which the United Nations is trying to impose all over the world. Millions of people have already died because of such laws, and millions more will die unless the U.N. is stopped."

Gun Bans and Genocide: The Disarming Facts

[ironstone]

I'm of the opinion that gun bans are not so much about protecting the people but more about protecting the government and neutralizing a possible threat to them.