It isn't the guns that are the problem, it's the people. Just the presence of a gun in the hands of a potential victim stops thousands of would be crimes every year. Firearm restrictions in this country already exist to protect people from their own stupidity, and most of the laws that are on the books make sense. Machine guns are illegal. Cannons and missiles and bazookas are all illegal.
Hand grenades are also illegal.
The news media would have you believe just the opposite. Primarily, because then they get you fired up, and you buy more newspapers. Look at how they portrayed the people in Waco , Texas. The weapons they said the people in the compound had were illegal under the current law but I watched the media lump these criminals in with the rest of the country's gun owners every other hour. The media circus sends the uneducated public out after us legal gun owners who know the truth, instead of addressing the real problem.