Coming from a country where we have very few firearms incidents, and every one is national news when it happens, I can't really understand the resistance in the US to gun control.
The second amendment of the US Constitution gives the citizens of the US the right to bear arms, and is usually the thing quoted in any argument against gun control. However, this right was drafted in the context of raising and maintaining a civil militia. In modern terms, the US National Guard. So, the constitution allows the bearing of arms in the National Guard. In UK terms, this would be the Territorial Army. Why is this then used to argue the allowing of arms, and military arms, for general civilian use?
Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Second Amendment to the US Constitution:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
2007-05-10
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