I'm aware the following sentence will ruffle some feathers but here it is. I'm sick of Americans going on about their Second Amendment rights as if they were some sort of divine law granted from the heavens by God* Himself.

A strong constitution is a Good Thing (TM) it helps prevent people's rights being alienated, but just because it's in the constitution doesn't make it reasonable. Surely it's time that we realised that this is no longer the 18th-century civilisation in which the constitution was written; there's no need for average citizens to be carrying guns.They generate a climate of fear and suspicion, and there's just no need for their presence. The one thing that really trumps, as I see it, any argument that we need guns for whatever purpose, is that guns are designed for the sole purpose of killing living things, usually humans. The presence of firearms in American society is much like the presence of nuclear weaponry on the world scale, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and all that. If no-one had them, no-one would need them.

*I'm an atheist but you know what i mean

edit: hieronymus that sounds like it makes a lot of sense to me