I would agree with the banning of guns, if in fact it would save lives. Regretfully, criminals have the ability to make them. Consider the fact that the Pathans in Afghanistan make AK47 clones, on foot operated lathes, what chance do we in north America have of banning them at all? Most people have the finacial ability to purchase small lathes and drills, books with technical information, and the materials to manufacture them very efficiently. Not to mention the fact that the entire might of England, and the Soviet Union, could not disarm the Pathans or the IRA, makes interesting food for thought? I am in more danger of being killed by a Drunk or Dope user, driving a registered car, without a valid driving permit, and no insurance, than I am from gun weilding fanatics. That being said, Brown Bess muskets were the assault AK 47's 250 years ago. Reasonable gun laws are just. Unreasonable knee-jerk laws are useless and fuel the irrational emotion generated legislation that neither saves lives, nor prevents criminal violence. I do not subscribe to the idea everyone should carry a gun, but in the past it was considered essential to survival. We progress in time and technology but not wisdom. However, I am sure that I would have been safer in Teddy Roosevelts day, when everyone wore one. Cordially. Dave