Hey Weight and Balance,
The most telling fact about gun ownership and murder is Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than all of my guns. And....ol' Teddy Boy is a leading ban the gun nut!
The Bill of Rights contained within our Constitution which was written to protect the Citizen against the tyranny of government has as the first amendment.....the prohibition against Congress making any law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to assemble peacefully, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievance.
Oddly enough, the second amendment stated that a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Thus, despite your personal feelings on the matter....the American people are entitled to own their guns. There are plenty of laws that administer how those guns can be used and no one can reasonably endorse the misuse of a deadly weapon. But the miss use of a a weapon by a citizen does not begin to be an excuse for the Government to remove the guns from the hands of the other law abiding citizens of the United States. That is in the very fabric of the documents that founded this great experiment in democracy and freedom.
Heck, WB, we kill 15,000 people or more in alcohol related traffic accidents.....I don't hear you crying for the abolition of Canadian blended whiskeys!
