An ordinary–if distraught–man is sentenced to 7 years in jail for guns he owned legally: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20101130_Family__New_Jersey_man_serving_7_years_for_guns_he_owned_legally.html
The simple fact of the matter is that guns decrease crime. Jamaica puts you in jail for years for the possession of a single bullet, and yet has one of the highest gun related crime rates in the world. Big factor: most of the police are corrupt. How do you defend yourself against a corrupt government? You don’t.
That’s why we have the Second Amendment, which was nothing less than another part of our checks and balanced system. Many of our Founding Fathers were uncomfortable with the idea of a standing military, since history had shown clearly that such militaries can be corrupted to support a corrupt government. To counterbalance this threat, they envisioned State militias, and universal access to gun ownership.
And to be clear, if you find yourself in a place with no crime, chances are good you are in the country somewhere, where most people in most states have multiple guns.
In my view, Congress needs to make a statement against all forms of restrictions of gun ownership. If it needs to be a Constitutional Amendment CLARIFYING the existing language of the Second Amendment, so be it.
If people are killing people, it is because our culture is in decline; and our culture is in decline because of the socialists who reject reason, custom, and common sense, in this area, as in all other areas where they render their asinine and perverse judgements.