[Halofan48]

...look, i'm going to point out somethings. One, people with mental illnesses and criminal records have been able to get guns. Either legally, or they steal it. Which brings up another issue. If guns are still sold, someone can steal them either from the store or from the person who purchased it. They might wait for you to leave home and then go in and take the gun. Also, you have to account for people who might be buying a gun to kill someone, or things called "crimes of passion". An example of one is this. A man comes home. He finds his wife sleeping with another man. In a fit of rage, he grabs his gun and shoots them both. Later, he realizes what he has done and feels terrible. Lets look at other countries that have banned guns, they have a homicide rate a lot lower than ours. If it were just a small difference, maybe it was another factor. Yet it appears that the difference between us is anything but small.

Here are some arguments.
1. It states in order to maintain a well regulated militia in the second amendment. If it meant for the people to have guns, why include the part about the militia?
2. Lets say they did mean anyone could keep a gun. Let's consider the weapons they had when the amendment was written. They didn't have pistols that can fire off 12 shots quickly. Their weapons were often 1 shot per minute or so.
3. If you want to defend yourself, there are other means. You could purchase a Non-Lethal Weapon, or learn somethings for self defense. If we spent the money we do on putting guns into development of more effective non-lethal weapons, they would likely become very effective in many situations.
4. To counter the black market argument. If we banned guns and increased security around our shores to prevent the smuggling of weapons, we'd see even fewer shootings done with smuggled guns. Also, if someone gets something like a long ranged rifle, you might be shot without even realizing it. I have yet to find any event where men armed with machine guns stormed a house to steal a few little things.