If you can have a gun for recreation and only some law enforcement officers (the ones that work in particularly violent areas) bear firearms then WTF do you still need other firearms? It sounds like South Park: "What do you need this gun for? Hunting, self-defence or other?" "Erm..... Other." Guns for self-defence are fairly useless as you can see in above posts so why Else would you want guns? The American cons!@#$%^&*ution was based on the idea that a revolution was healthy for the continual good of the country as a rather messy way of practising democrasy, hence the right to bear arms. Whether you agree with this or not is a whole new thread in its own right but it doesn't really help reduce guncrime. If MilleniumMan were to base his argument on keeping firearms in case they hate thier government then he would have a valid argument, if a contentious one. As it stands his arguments don't make an awful lot of sense.