I'm not giving up my AR's and AK's. I no longer recognize the authority of the US government with respect to firearms.
Over the last fifty years, with only one single exception (Gabby Giffords), every single mass shooting event with more than four casualties has taken place in a place where guns were supposedly not allowed.
see:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/
“In 2010, there were 12,996 murders. Firearms were used in 8,775. Of those, rifles were used in 358, and modern sport utility rifles, often called assault rifles are a fraction of those. These rifles are seldom used in crime because standard handguns, at close range, offer comparable firepower and are more easily concealed.
“Hands and feet were used to kill 742. Clubs were used to kill 540. Knives were used to kill 1,704.”
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-murdered-with-hands-and-feet-than.html
Basic premise : criminal killers do not now, nor ever will give a rat's elbow about existing anti-gun laws, or ten thousand more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ion61SDo4
I seem to recall there were millions of AKs in Iraq, for what they were worth.
Still, I expect Gandhi might’ve pondered whether 80% salt is better than no salt at all.
Happy New Year!