You say that it's a shame that "kids keep dying for the blessed right to bear arms." Yet the ban at issue in DC v. Heller doesn't appear, at least, to have stopped kids from dying. From the year it became law to 1991, the murder rate went up about 150%, and from 1987 to 2005 the murder rate was higher than pre-ban levels.* I haven't read any of the statistical analyses that I'm sure have been done, but it seems like a stretch to say that kids are dying for the right to bear arms when the city in America that's done the most to abrogate that right doesn't seem to have gotten any less violent for such abrogation. As for the UNC case in particular, you appear to have a guy who shot a girl for her car and ATM card. Are you really asking me to believe that a man like that, someone willing to kill for a cheap car, would respect a handgun ban? Or do you think there's some type of gun control so stringent that it could actually prevent anyone from illegally procuring a gun?

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