Why are some people like this guy even in the position they are in?

Nicholas Rasmussen of the National Counterterrorism Center told the Washington Post 

"We find ourselves in a more dangerous situation because our population of violent extremists has no difficulty gaining access to weapons that are quite lethal.  I wish that weren't so."

Rasmussen has served at the NCC for five years and three of those have been as director.

"More weapons, more readily available, increases the lethality of those that would pick them up and use them," added Rasmussen.

Well, there are hundreds of millions of guns owned by over a hundred million citizens.  That isn't the problem.  The problem is the human heart, and you won't correct that with more infringements on the rights of the people.