Harry]You like your guns(for whatever reason) more than you care about a bunch of random people you know nothing about that are going to die by the end of the year.
Yeah in a sense you're right. It's just the legal enshrinement of the idea that a free individual has the natural right to self-defense, and to resist tyrannical oppression. We're not doing an ordinary cost/benefit analysis because we aren't supposed to. It's considered an important right under our founding laws, and can only be restricted to the degree that it doesn't conflict with that basic natural right to be armed.
Personally I think our gun laws are fine overall. They tend to vary by state depending on local opinion, local need, and local problems. I'm perfectly willing to entertain any proposed overall change, but I've noticed whenever I ask people to tell me what they want to change, they either have no idea, are proposing something we already do, or want something blatantly unconstitutional and unrealistic. Our media are basically prostitutes for political parties, and consequently they like to play this out as some sexy topical issue for debate, rather than a mundane legal balancing act. I think it's important to remember that your average American journalist is just some chick who sucked a lot of dicks in college.
