For the troll's edification, the Constitution was a document drafted by people who believed all power rested with the people and our government ought to and would be merely a mechanism devised to carry out the people's will, not a power to rule over them. The only way the people can maintain this native right to govern themselves is by not allowing all weaponry to be concentrated in the hands of an official power elite. I'm glad the British have ceded their rights to a benign power elite which have sort of ruled over them well, but we don't trust ours and for good reason.

For jim's edification, guns don't kill people. People with boxcutters, planes, knives, and frying pans kill people. Study this concept until it sinks in.

For everybody else who's anti-gun, I don't know what kind of sweet place you live, but I live somewhere that burglars routinely invade the homes of elderly people to rob them, and kill them if they are around. Routinely we have a few of those folks survive by having and using a weapon in their own homes. I don't give a d**m what you think about guns and neither do homeowners around here.

Why don't you ask the US why it doesn't jail all its violent criminals, that's the better question. Oh, I forgot, we have to uphold criminal Rights.