I'm a lot less worried about an armed home invasion than I am about a "normal" citizen losing his temper on the highway or in the grocery store. Last year at the Folklife Festival here in Seattle some schmuck got in an argument and pulled a gun. It "accidentally" went off and a couple of people were shot (not killed). If a bunch of the other folks in the excessively huge crowd been armed, there would have been a blood bath.

My parents were robbed at gunpoint on the street a couple of years ago. My dad said that if he had had a gun, the thief would just have had it along with his wallet, since they guy came up behind them and put the gun in his back.

When only criminals have guns it will be easier to tell who they are.

How about this? Make all handguns illegal. Anyone caught with a handgun gets executed, no appeals. Make the law so stringent that people would cross the street to avoid walking near a handgun laying on the sidewalk.

One of the things that bothers me the most is that I have never heard of a parent being charged with a crime when their children find the gun and shoot someone. What kind of idiot leaves a gun and ammo where there is any chance their children can get it? Why isn't it wildly illegal? Those parents should be in prison.