Other than the exceptions outlined below, arms should not be regulated

Rebuttal to straw gun purchases: In most cases, the person who can't get a gun in today's society would be able to in what I am arguing for. This straw gun argument would be pointless since people would be allowed to have guns in more instances than now. For example, in California there is a law that makes it that those who have attempted suicide cannot possess a gun for at least 5 years after that suicide attempt.[1] I know this because I had attempted suicide at one point and had my gun rights stripped away because of that. I don't think this is an instance where guns should be regulated at all, so if someone were to say, buy a gun for me since I can't legally acquire one in my state at this time, it wouldn't matter since under what I propose, it wouldn't be illegal for someone who has attempted suicide to get a gun. The right to protect oneself from an unjust government should always be upheld, and I consider that more important than if someone decides to kill themselves with a gun. For one, it's the person's choice to kill themselves. It's not physically harming anyone else. While, yes, it can be tragic because perhaps someone could have prevented a death, but I don't think that's the job of the government to do. That's the job of the people that person lives with or the people who care about that person to ensure that they cannot kill themselves. Anyways, I got a little off-topic there, but I found it necessary to bring up an example of a case where I don't see any problem with straw gun purchases. The only case where it would be a problem to me is in the aforementioned cases: if someone were to purchase a gun for a child, someone who is mentally handicapped to the point of having a child's mind, or a prisoner. All of that would already be illegal since I mentioned before it would be illegal for such people to have a gun. As soon as they are in possession of such a gun, then they have committed a crime. There's no need for further legislation or regulation on the matter. Rebuttals on black market sales: Well, there would be no black market since there would be no way to sell a gun illegally to someone unless you're doing it where it falls under the aforementioned instances where I agree it should be regulated, so to a child, child-like adult, or prisoner. Black markets arise when something is illegal, if it's legal, there's no black market and it's just a regular market. I don't feel like a black market would arise to sell kids and prisoners guns since I think almost everyone agrees that kids should not have guns and that it's a stupid idea to sell them to them. I mean, maybe there will be a few crazy people out there who think otherwise, but it will probably be so small it would hardly be a problem. Plus, most kids don't have the money to purchase guns anyways, and prisoners don't have access to money to purchase a gun, so there would be no point of a black market for guns under the situations I provided. Also, I'd like to point out that it's already legal for people to own tanks in America at least[2] and I know of no law or regulation banning them in any way. I don't think this should be regulated either, for if it is, it gives the government a huge advantage over the people. The fact that the US government has tanks, missiles, super sonic jets, etc at its disposal gives it an unfair advantage if the need ever arises that we need to rebel from the government. [1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov... [2] http://www.dailydot.com...