More along the lines of protecting us from statists USING crazy people as an excuse to disarm law abiding citizens.
How is passing a common sense law that makes sure we aren't selling guns to crazy people going to harm law abiding citizens?
Look, no one wants to take your gun binky away, guy.
It's just the two reasons you gun fetishists give for wanting guns are silly.
The first one is that you want to feel "safe" in your home. Most home invasions happen when no one is home, so you are just giving the bad guys an easy place to get a gun after he takes your TV and DVD player. A gun in the home has been proven 43 times more likely to kill a member of the household than a bad guy.
The other even sillier reason you give is so that some day, you can take out the government.
Fact is, the government will always have more guns, better guns, and when they come for you, your neighbors will be cheering when they take you out because you were frightening their children.
First, i dont actually own a gun. I live in NYC so its not really that easy to get one. I just believe in the right of citizens to own the same armament agents of the state can own, except those agents of the military.
Second, any time a gun control person uses the term "common sense" I want to vomit. Its weasel words to basically pre-emtively restrict someone from getting a gun because of something they "might do", not any previous bad act or restricting condition.
Third, we take for granted an organized society, with civil rule and free flow of material goods. While limited there are plenty of scenarios that would disrupt the above steady state condition. At that point, do you really want the only armed people to be state agents and criminals?
Also, technically a home invasion when you are not home is a burglary.
If you want to limit the arms a person can have beyond the Firearm Act of 1934 and the existing laws preventing felons and ceritifed mental cases, amend the second amendment. Until then, repsect the consitution please.