8 homicides in 1 day.

[*Nately120*]

Meh, laws are like locks...they only keep honest people out. But, to act as thought America's easy access to legally-obtained guns and the lack of accountability regarding ownership doesn't supply criminals with these dastardly "illegal guns they're gonna get either way" is short-sighted. Unless people are doing things the hard way and smuggling illegal arms across borders or making them themselves, illegal guns in the hands of a criminal were supplied via a legal method in some sense.

Then again, I don't understand why the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to criminals in people's minds. Americans have the right to defend themselves from criminals unless they at one point were a criminal, and then in that case you have to take illegal measures to defend yourself. Who needs a gun more than a criminal or a former criminal? Why do illegal guns even exist? Shouldn't ever man woman and child who isn't currently incarcerated have the right to carry a firearm? If criminals were just allowed to buy them then there wouldn't be illegal ones at all! Problem solved. The only reason outlaws have guns is because guns for some people are outlawed.

EDIT: Here is a quick search for crimes that can prohibit a person from owning a firearm:

Violent or Gun-Related Misdemeanants
Alcohol Abusers
Juvenile Offenders
Dangerously Mentally Ill
http://smartgunlaws.org/prohibited-people-gun-purchaser-policy-summary/

So why is it that these people have any less of a right to defend themselves from criminals? If you do your time you should be able to buy a gun legally because of the Constitution and all that jazz. According to gun advocates we live in a world where people are going to break into your house and murder you unless you are armed and ready, so how dare we disarm anyone who has paid his debt or, in some cases, hasn't committed a crime at all?