I've come to this late, so I apologize if I'm repeating anything.

MtheGM, the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. There are some people who claim that even the legal requirement for a *license* to own a gun is unconstitutional.

If that amendment were somehow repealed or modified (which, I guarantee you, will not happen, for a number of reasons), there would then be the sticky problem of removing literally tens of millions of privately owned firearms, many of them unregistered and illegal, from the reluctant hands of their owners. (Honesty compels me to add that the overwhelming majority of gun-owners are rational, law-abiding people who never shoot anyone. And the slogan is unfortunately true: if guns are outlawed, the outlaws will still have plenty.)

Whatever the other facts of the present case may be, Zimmerman appears to have been licensed to carry a pistol. That doesn't give him the right to use it whenever he feels like it, but all I'm talking about is gun policy.