Guns In America

     America is a Nation of 300 million people who own 300 million guns.  The United States Constitution protects the right of those 300 mullion people to own and bare firearms but are periodic massacres of innocent people the price America's citizens  have to pay for the right to be protected under the Second Amendment of the Constitution?  If so it is a very heavy price to pay for such liberties.
     I was 14 years of age when Charles Whitman fired from the top of the University of Texas Tower killing 16 people.  I remember thinking at the time "what if I had been walking across the Texas campus that day"?
 The massacre of 13 at Columbine in 1999, 32 dead at Virginia tech in 2007, 12 dead in Aurora this Summer and now 27 slaughtered in Newton Connecticut.  Will America finally wake up and realize much more stricter gun regulation needs to be enacted into law?
     I personally am not a gun owner but I don't see any problem with limiting access to certain kinds of firearms and other restrictions to gun ownership.  I've heard it at least a thousand times "guns don't kill people, people kill people" so why not make it harder for people to buy any type of firearm?  Buying a gun is easier than getting a driver's license.  Any citizen who wants to own a gun should have to go through the same gun training and annual certification that  a policeman has to go through  Ever gun in America should have to be registered annually just like the automobiles we drive.
      I could go on and on but by now you should be able to tell I am not in the Pro Gun camp.  Something has to be done to stop all the horrific mass murder in America.  Maybe now after 20 first graders have been killed, America will wake up and demand Congress regulate guns in America.