The right to defend with a gun is the same right that puts guns in the hands of the killers. Until you realise this basic concept you'll continue to kill each other with guns more than any other country by far.
I posted the link but here's the article anyway.
by Letter to the editor
Wednesday, April 15, 2009; 9:49 PM
My name is Elilta Habtu, and I'm an injured survivor.
I was sitting in German class when I was shot in my wrist and in my jaw. The second bullet will forever remain 1 mm away from my brainstem. These past two years I've advocated for more responsible gun laws in our country.
I'm devastated that two years after the worst school shooting to occur ever in American history, where 32 of our fellow Hokies were brutally murdered, our gun laws in Virginia have not changed.
The simplest action our legislators can do that could prevent gun violence and save lives is to close the gun show loophole here in Virginia and across our nation as well. There are only 10 states in our country that currently have closed the gun show loophole.
Our gun shows are the easiest one-stop shop to buy guns where anyone, including federal convicts, the mentally ill, gang members and even people on the U.S. terror list, can easily purchase weapons, even semiautomatics like AK-47s.
Although the shooter didn't obtain his guns from a gun show, the mentally ill - like the shooter - can currently do so at a gun show. All a criminal has to do is purchase from a private seller - an unlicensed seller who legally is not required to perform a background check on the buyer.
Unlike a situation where a friend sells a gun to a friend, gun shows have hundreds, even thousands, of people attending and selling guns to complete strangers.
