When these people try to buy weapons, they run headlong into the gun control bureaucracy and the nightmare maze of regulation. While society has the responsibility to deal with criminal offenders, we must remember two of the most important principles that this country is founded on. These principles are freedom, and the right of American citizens to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Constitutionally granted rights on the grounds that these rights might be abused. The violation of these two principles is, I believe, the central issue in the gun control debate.
Gun control assumes that anyone who wants to own a gun is a criminal or is mentally unstable.
In summary, as long as America has her Constitution and the American people have their freedom, gun control is doomed to failure. The voting majority may get duped into false hopes of abolishing crime through legislation and regulation, however, as the regulations begin to weigh down upon our private lives and gnaw away at our freedoms, with no discernable decrease in crime or violence, popular support will dwindle. Gun control advocates may have their day today, however, they have no future.