I'm not a big fan of guns myself, but there's a damn good reason for the "right to bear arms". It's not about letting crazy folks have toys that go "boom". It's to help protect the people against the possible tyranny of an unjust government. Right now in America, we're lucky we don't have to worry too much about the government instating martial law and making it a dictatorship, but the "right to bear arms" is one of the rights that, if taken away, would leave the people vulnerable to such things. It may be unlikely to ever happen, but it doesn't hurt to put in safeguards.
