You seem to also have the impression that the majority of people are against guns and that they want all guns to be take from all civilians. The reason was that he knows if he tells the American public that he plans on serious gun control or even a hint of gun restrictions the people would not vote for him and beyond a shadow of a doubt George W. Bush would be voted in as president. All those same people have never been shot at or hit in civilian life. Another statement you made was to the effect that guns are not needed for self-protection because we have emergency numbers like 911 and that the police make regular rounds each night in every ones neighborhoods is ludicrous. I have a hunch your not even an American citizen, but more likely Canadian or in England.
People argue that the second amendment clearly states that people have to right to bear arms.
This part of the second amendment states that the people only have the right to bear arms ONLY for the security of a free state, namely, us. If you want to play with guns and weapons of destruction, join the military. Our forefathers wrote this amendment because we HAD no military. Our only defending army was one formed by volunteers, which consisted of everyday people. To assure that we will always have a military, they wrote the second amendment.