Hi Greg,
Well it quit obvious that basic logic is NOT a prequisite for mechanical engineering.
You’re intentions may be good; however, your ideas(?) are a little naive. You can NOT protect people by legislating away their right to defend THEMSELVES! And that IS precisely what gun control laws (ALL gun control laws are designed to do!)

http://www.secondamendment.net/2amd6.html
http://www.secondamendment.net/2amd8.html

The anti gun laws that you want to instill on our free society are all UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The United states Constitution , Bill Of RIGHTS, Second Amendment clearly and emphatical states: 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. What part of “infringed” don’t you understand ?!?!?
(From Dick Howe) “Your right of self-defense, with the best weapons available, existed before there was any government, as noted and restated in
the 2nd amendment.”

Many great leaders throughout history thought as you do – “sensible gun control” – Hilter, Pol Pot, Stalin, Muslinin – get the picture?
Keeping track of guns that are legally owned leads to confiscation.
http://www.gunowners.org/jpfoib.htm
http://www.gunowners.org/fs0202.htm

EveryONE of the laws you support not only INFRINGES on lthe basic fundamental human human RIGHT of every law abiding citizens, but it also ENDANGERS the lives of EVERY law abiding citizen.
Define Criminal !
Now ! WHO do you HONESTLY think that gun control laws would affect? Who do you HONESTLY think gun control will keep safe?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese4.html
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6740
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29588

Do you HONESTLY believe that a rapist, irrate husband/boyfriend/lover, stalker needs a firearm to do his ‘job”? Would you deny your sister who is being stalked by an irrate boyfriend / ex lover who is armed only with his bare hands and fists the right to defend herself ?!?!? Would you DARE make HER go thru the waiting period? Do you HONESTLY believe that her attacker wait until she got the firearm?

True stories of how Gun Control Kills/ Armed citizens Save Lives
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArmedCitizensDeterCrime/

No, Guns are NOT going to dissappear from the face of the earth and even if they some how magically did, there would STILL be violent crime! Guns are tools , as are baseball bats, knives, blunt digging instruments, and yes even hands and fists! Impose gun control laws on a free society and you have done absolutely NOTHING but make the streest safer for CRIMINALS by providing them with UNARMED VICTIMS!

http://home.pacbell.net/dragon13/20klaws.html

Just take a look at the countries who have all ready implemented gun control: Australia, England, Canada, South Africa. China:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/11/1026185080648.html
No Guns? No Problem! Gun free China – Knife weilding Chinese man kills 65 people
Chinese man accused of 65 murders
http://www.msnbc.com/news/994028.asp?cp1=1

How safe are their citizens?

Compare US cities and states who have lenient gun control vs strict gun control: IF gun control did all the things that you and the antigun crowd say they would do Washington DC and Maryland with it’s most strict gun control would be the safest places to live………… BUT as you can see they are NOT!
Vermont has the most lenient gun laws in the USA,and its crime rates are lowest.

Kennesaw Georgia (Very lenient gun laws) VS Morton Grove Illinois (very strict gun control):

http://www.kennesaw.ga.us/CodeOfOrdinances.aspx
http://www.2ampd.net/Articles/Cook/Public_Safety_Ordinance.htm

I can’t find any crime stats on Morton Grove Ill, Maybe they don’t want us to know how bad crime is since they banned guns.

Greg, There ARE laws that keep guns out of the wrong hands without infringinging in the right and safety of law abiding citizens.! Enforce THOSE laws!
Rape, Murder, Theft, robbery….. Crime IS all ready against the law! It is the CRIME laws that need to be more strict, NOT gun laws! Ooooh let’s see, we have rotating doors , plea bargaining, prison perks etc, etc. etc! Let’s get stricter about THESE perks, huh? This and ONLY this will PUNISH THE CRIMINALS WITHOUT INFRINGING ON LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS!!

“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be
prevented bythe penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional right.”-Arkansas Supreme Court (1878)

Here let me assist you with doing some more research:

http://www.gunowners.org/skeptic.htm
http://www.gunowners.org/fs0101.htm
http://www.2asisters.org/education/ninemyths.htm
http://www.a-human-right.com/

Yours in Safety and Freedom,
Women Against Gun Control