In the times of the Founding Fathers, a person with a gun had to load it with gunpowder, tamp it, add the lead shot, hope the flint would ignite the gunpowder and aim with a limited sighting system.  Today, a person with a single automatic rifle, large capacity clip and scope sighting can wreak devastation far beyond what could have been contemplated in the old days.  Honestly, there has to be some sort of way to honor the second amendment and still enact common sense gun control. Maybe it's too late, as guns have so permeated our culture, but I want to hope for a better future that this.