"Politicians say, 'If we ban handguns, the country will be a safer place.'
Handguns were banned, and the country is not a safer place."
It's not about public safety! Politicians disarm the citizenry, not to protect law-abiding citizens from criminals, but to protect criminals - themselves - from the law-abiding citizens.

"No person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President;" the Constitution of the United States, Art ii, § 1, ¶ 5.

"... all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners." - Chief Justice Morrison Waite, opining for the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett (1875).

The U.S. Congress consists of 535 will-be felons who all perjured themselves on Jan. 4th by refusing to defend the U.S. Constitution as they had sworn to do.

"The righteous are bold as a lion." - Proverbs 28:1b
But the guilty are paranoid for fear of the righteous.