Every time there is a mass killing the proponents of gun control crank up the air raid sirens and begin demanding more restrictions. The problem is that all of their proposed restrictions are targeted at the people who are not the problem.

You can't stop smuggling. The "war on drugs" has taught us that smuggling is basically unstoppable. For every shipment you interdict, a dozen make it through. Criminalizing firearms ownership will simply create a new market for the smugglers. When we look to Britain we see that the near-ban of firearms is producing increases in firearms crimes using smuggled guns.

There are already a lot of guns in the world. And I do mean a lot of guns. Wikipedia puts the total number of small arms in the world at more than 600 million. Using that number, if you could close every arms factory in the world tomorrow, we would still have 600 million guns that would need to be tracked down. Canada has paid about $2 billion dollars to register about 8 million guns. That pencils out to roughly $250 per firearm. If we applied Canadian efficiency worldwide it would cost upwards of $150 billion dollars, and Canada doesn't have a perfect record of registering all or even most of the guns within it's borders.

Regulation only hurts the people regulated. The only people who comply with regulation are the ones who don't need to be regulated. The law abiding citizens who undergo the waiting periods and background checks aren't the problem and never have been. The criminals who steal their guns, or buy them on the black market are untouched by registration schemes.

Statistics? Who cares? The fact is guns in the hands of responsible persons has never been the problem, but is frequently the solution. Statistical trending of criminals should not be driving force behind public policy. The suburban soccer mom isn't going to rob a 7-11, but she might shoot the robber if she felt that her kids were threatened. Millions of normal people own and carry firearms everyday in the United States and the streets do not run red with blood. The most violent, dangerous places in the US are the ones with the most strict gun control laws.