The second amendment is the most important because it is the one right that ensures you can protect all your other rights... period.
I won’t even bother to address the obvious citizen-vs-citizen self defense issues, it secures your rights with our government.
People who say that you can no longer protect yourself from such a strong and well-armed government don’t get the point. If the government were to try something catastrophically tyrannical, there will be much higher consequences with 250 million guns out there in the citizen’s hands than if there were zero. Guerilla war tactics with inferior arms can disrupt large armies. It is the last ultimate deterrent. The thing that all dictators fear most: A well-armed population.
-FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

To all those who are saying that guns don't prevent murders, you are absolutely correct: People can still kill without guns, and you're not really going to stop anyone from doing so.

HOWEVER, you can (and really must) admit that firearms must make it a damn sight lot easier for people to kill. And it's not just that you could seriously hurt or kill someone with something else either, because guns are very good at what people call 'Killing Sprees'. Much better than a knife, with one of those, one person at a time, two if you're lucky. With a gun (any gun, I might add, bar some single shot rifles and older weapons), you can kill as many people as times you want to pull the trigger, less with an automatic weapon.

Still don't believe me? How about some words that, honestly, I think will make most Americans hate me (words that will be forever be, for some, a sore point); Columbine, Virginia Tech. I'd like to see the guy who killed all those students last year use something other than a firearm to kill 32 students and teachers.

I'm going to cite something that happened a bit closer to home (my home, Australia, that is); The 1996 Port-Arthur Massacre. The guy went on a killing spree with a bunch of semi- and full-automatic weapons, and he killed 35 people, he's doing life without parole until he dies. This is considered probably the worst massacre in the modern history of Australia (and I'm taking twentieth century here - aboriginal and settler massacres not included). It resulted in a complete ban on automatic weapons, and severe limitation of the sale of guns in general in Australia. Now shootings don't happen as often, and when they do, they're big news. They're not as easily dismissed as in other countries (and I'm not just talking about the US, there are plenty of others).

When these things are happening on a regular basis (columbine and virginia tech were less than ten years apart), perhaps something needs to be done.

Now, I'm not saying that the US should ban guns completely, because obviously they hold a special place in the hearts of most US citizens, and obviously it's protected by your constitution. And I also have come to understand that the US has already banned certain weapons such as machine guns and other types of assault weapons (if anybody has a more in-depth knowledge of these laws, I'd love to hear from you, because my own is somewhat lacking).

I've got to tell you now, I love guns, or, more accurately, the idea of guns, I've only really fired .22s and air rifles, and that's out in the bush where there's only trees to shoot.

What I would love to see is, not complete gun control, which is unconstitutional, but pushing gun control laws to the point that they are still protected by the constitution, but still less-than-easy to obtain. (I might take this moment to point out that the US constitution was written over two hundred years ago, when guns were either muzzle loading single-shots, or really, really big and heavy, perhaps a review of that amendment should be considered, now that we have guns that can empty a cartrige of ten or more bullets in a matter of seconds, and can be carried around without barely leaving a bulge in peoples jackets.)

So yeah, those are my views, as you can see, I'm not siding with these 'bullshit' guys, but I'm pretty sure most of my arguements are valid, and not a bunch of scare tactics that they seem to think the pro-gun control advocates are in this video.

(Oh, and is it just me, or was that lady with the curly hair really insane? Just watch her eyes when she's talking, not to mention the words coming out of her mouth.)

It's to bad children are killed by guns but if the chidren were taught and showen what guns can do, they would have respect for them. Hell there are countrys where they are training army's of children to use wepons every day. It would be the shit's to get whipped by a bunch of 10 yr olds that know what there doing !! If kid see's what a gun can do to a deer' it makes them think twice about screwing around with one. At least mine do. Take your kids hunting, and show them what it's all about.

to the poster from across the pond:

"the point is if you didnt allow people to own guns then the criminals wouldnt have them either..."

this statement couldnt be more wrong. criminals are criminals for a reason, they break the law. a law banning the ownership of guns would just take them out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

its not uneducated, its true that without guns there would be less murders, standard. in the u.k guns are illegal and we have little to no murders from guns each year. the point is if you didnt allow people to own guns then the criminals wouldnt have them either...
thats how it is over here, if you deperately want a gun in this country you could get your hands on it, but there arent gun crimes every day and when there are incidents of a shooting (even where no one was hurt) then its all over the news all over te country.
i make it seem like im anti_gun protestor etc, i actually really like guns, but the simple fact of the matter is guns kill people because they are so available to you guys.