Criminals, by definition, are not impeded by laws. That's what makes them criminals. Taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens has increased crime everywhere it has been tried in this country, as is almost universally agreed by police chiefs, nationwide. Some of these tragedies might perhaps be prevented by gun control. However, gun control has consistently been proven to result in much larger numbers of people raped or killed than the number who die of gun-related accidents.
More people die because of gun control than from gun-related accidents.
The Second Amendment was also written as a check against government oppression. Power still corrupts, just as it did in 1776, and governments still have a tendency to encroach on their citizens rights, as we increasingly see in this country. Peg does not consider human beings to be the enemy of the planet. She favors responsible stewardship of the environment, with commonsense regulations where needed to protect reasonable public health and safety. Enforcement of current regulations would solve the illegal toxic dumping problems we have encountered around the state, some of which have impinged on community drinking water and on agricultural land.