Buddha, the founding fathers quite plainly said that the right to bare arms had as much to do with protecting themselves from our government as anyone else's government. I believe they all sat around and said "England is a bunch of assholes, I hope we don't get like that" "Yea, lets keep our guns so if we get power mad, someone can teach us a lesson" If you read my opening post, you will see the quotes from all of them on it. Like I said previously. 170 million unarmed people murdered by their governments in the last century for no reason. I don't see that governments have changed that much since then.
The problem with registration and ect is that the government should not be able to keep track of people who have guns - its none of their business. The only way registration would help you solve who shot someone is if they leave the gun at the scene of the crime which happens not that regularly. There is only 2 ways to deal with this, either force everyone to have weapons training in school and give out permits to buy at that time, or require background checks that they dont keep track of, like they do now. I don't mind having a background check. I think its pretty well proven that restrictive gun laws only keep legal people from buying guns and don't really do anything for crime.
