Well you might want to check out the mortality rate of politicians from assassination back 50 or so years ago when they did not have that protection. Feel free to do the calculations and assure yourself that they are less safe than the average law abiding citizen from guns. Do you honestly believe the most powerful man in the world should not have protection?
What I don't believe is that is that politicians are so inherently better than citizens that they should have means of protection that they would deprive citizens of.
It is not the person who is getting protected, but the office, the institution of government. Given your obsession with the constitution, I would have thought you would have liked to see it protected. Which means protecting the occupiers of said offices.
As for the supreme court ruling, it is ridiculous. Then again, the average American is ridiculous politically, so I am not all surprised. Just seen some of the adverts doing the rounds about our NHS, the fact that they are being aired at all shows what a mess the US is as a society.
And you are an elitist snob who did not answer the question about "which of the 16,137 murder victims listed in the 2004 FBI Uniform Crime Report did not need protection?", I find it interesting that you, at times, claim to be a revolutionary and in this thread claim that politicians deserve protection. So what are you about Hadron? Being a revolutionary or protecting the status quo? I also find it interesting that you approve of disarming citizens but approve of school shooters. Maybe you just want to make the spree killers work easier?
You can be elitist and a revolutionary - as I have said countless times I am a social meritocrat. Just happen to be disgusted at how the current social order is comprised; it is anything but merit.
As for the 16137 homicides, a minority of whom were genuine victims, that minority would be safer if guns were gotten rid of. In the UK, its almost always gangland members who get shot and if our rates were scaled up and compared to the US - less than 500 people would get shot. In the case of the politicians, however, having armed bodyguards makes them safer. The maths here is practically unarguable.