I'm NOT 'anti-gun' - we have guns in the UK, where individuals have demonstrated a genuine need for a gun, been vetted by the police and certified as a suitable person to have a gun, and proved that your weapon and ammunition will be properly stored in an approved manner. Those people are almost all farmers and their workers, game-keepers, and sport-shooters, and the types and numbers of guns they can own are very specific, and restrict them to weapons appropriate to the need that the owners have demonstrated. Self-Defence' or 'To Scare Away The Bad Guys' are not accepted by the authorities as legitimate needs, and stating those as a reason for applying for a gun-licence or certificate would absolutely ensure that the licence or certificate would be refused.

I AM pro-strong, effective, enforceable, and enforced gun-regulation, as described (in a very broad-brush way) above.

Those things are sensible, and they work - the U.K. and Australia, to name but two countries who impose those standards, prove that they work - the evidence is in the rate of shootings per 100k head of population, a tiny fraction of the rate in the US where any and every brain-dead moron can have large numbers of weapons including, in many cases, military-grade weapons that no civilian should be permitted to possess.

We know that the small-dicks, the red-necks, the fearful, and the inadequates who seem to make up a large percentage of the US population aren't going to give up their ballistic comforters - that's a given - so the only possible answer in those circumstances has to be...

a) tighter, and strongly enforced, regulations defining and refining the types of weapons that can be owned, the categories of individuals who may, or may not, own them, and the methods of storage, and...

b) regular, strict supervision of gun-owners and their weaponry.

Otherwise...more dead Yanks.

Now, you still haven't told me - in order to comply with the requirements of The Sacred Second, you are required to be a part of a 'well-regulated militia'. So....

What is the title of the organisation you're a part of?
Where is its headquarters?
What is its website address (so we can all check it out and read its constitution)?
How frequently do members attend for training, drills, weapons and kit inspections, etc?