Why do Americans want to own guns? {Gadling}

Oct 28th 2009 10:34PM I agree! A gun is a means of protection and a symbol of power that gave us our country in the first place. What ever happened to the American spirit? This country is full of a bunch of mindless cowards that are too comfortable in their pointless lives to stand, or to even die for anything. The people have lost ownership slowly over time, right under our nose. History has proven that times change and the unpredicted always occurs. Times always change and so do laws. To say that it should be illegal to own guns is an naive way of saying that we will always be safe, protected, and that our current situation will never change. If the argument is that guns are fatal, then what about knives, bows, tire irons, baseball bats, hamers, or even our bare hands. The fact is that the weapon doesn't chose to kill. Besides, I've never seen a gun sentenced to prison for murder.