And just as a comment, demonizing liberals as irrational and illogical is just as bad as Michael Moore demonizing American gun lovers as irresponsible and ignorant.
I love guns, but had they not been such a prevalent part of American society, we'd statistically have much less social issues, ala Japan, Britain. But since they are everywhere, and it's easy as pie for criminals to get guns (whereas it's impossible, and is punishable by death in most decent Asian countries) the law abiding citizens need to have the right to arm themselves just as well if not better then street thugs.
As shown in NO.
Had this been a unpredicted disaster and average joes been caught in the aftermath... you'd bet that there would never ever be a case for taking guns away from law abiding citizens