How does having my own guns and money be forcibly taken from me by a separate organization make me more secure? See, this is the mistake statists make with everything. You see something big and complicated, in this case defense of the homeland, and you just assume it has to be managed by a government. You do it with everything, and then after the government predictably mismanages everything, you blame the regime or some particular policy instead of the system where one guy is allowed to dictate standards for industries they know nothing about.