RyanC:  You're quite right, those 300 million guns are scary...They're scary because many of them are not properly stored.  Each year scores of children die when they find an unsecured gun and shoot themselves or a buddy.  Each year scores of homeowners shoot an "intruder" who turns out to be their son or daughter getting home late.  Each year angry spouses kill their husbands or wives (usually wives) and themselves...and, tragically, often their children as well.  Each year hundreds of depressed and/or mentally ill individuals kill themselves and, as we've seen way too often, others before they commit suicide.  Indeed, the omnipresence of firearms makes our life more dangerous.  The real question is "what do we do about it?"  How do we make things safer w/o violating the Second Amendment?  How can we keep guns away from those who will "misuse" them w/o infringing on the rights of those who do not misuse them?  Even "mild", reasonable measures are blocked.  Now what? any ideas?