I could go on and on posting articles about crime rates (including crimes committed with guns) increasing after the ban of guns. This has happened in every place that has banned guns; DC, Chicago, Great Brittain, and Australia. If you ban guns from the regular citizens, it doesn't stop criminals from using them.

In every dictatorship the first thing a tyrant does is take guns away from the citizens. That is why the founding fathers viewed gun ownership as a right, not a priviledge. In a large part gun ownership is protection (or insurance) against tyranny.

I have been shooting gunpowder firearms since I was 8 and have never shot anyone or damaged any property. Responsible gun owners do not commit crimes with guns. Few citizens commit crimes with guns (12,000 gun homicides from 360,000,000 people, or .00003 percent of the population), and few of these crimes are committed by gun owners. Taking guns away from citizens infringes on a constitutional right and enables criminals to rule with impunity.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/guns_england/2007/08/26/27556.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1440764.stm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296724,00.html

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2007/11/gun-bans-lead-to-increase-in-violent.php