Stealth, I agree with you 100%. If I were standing near you right now, I'd want to shake your hand.
I don't think that people realize that if the government takes away the 2nd Amendment then what would stop them from taking away everything else? Not a darn thing!
That's exactly why a gun ban would be completely worthless. If you ban guns, the only people that are going to have them are the criminals and the crazies because there is such a thing as a black market. Plus, the people that run things on the black market will just get richer because they know you can't get guns from anywhere else so they'll charge whatever price they want.
I saw a picture the other day of a bunch of people at a gun show and the caption underneath it read, "If guns kill people, how does anyone get out of a gun show alive?" That is exactly the point. Guns don't kill people, it's the criminals and the crazies that are killing people. A gun is just a tool that they use to do it. If they didn't have a gun, they'd just find some other things to use to kill people.