All Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun ( Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment) and stricter laws and licensing will not effectively save lives.Guns don't kill people , people kill people. Many people believe that banning guns would solve all gun related crimes. Here is  a video from Australia on what happens when guns are banned there. Usually when it come to guns, most people can only think of Sandy Hook or Columbine. But in all actually are the two criminal acts related. If so, do guns lead to the crime and if that is true is taking away the 2nd Amendment going to change that, I think not. Also at the same time if all Americans that owned guns legally turned them in if there was a law , would the criminals give up theirs as well , I think not. According to the Federal Bureau Investigation stats on gun crime stats, violent crime in the U.S. has significantly gone down with figures. Knifes are used more often that not , because they are more readily available, along with body weapons( fists/feet) and blunt objects such as a baseball bat.
    Most crimes that are committed with a gun are obtained in many different ways , most are obtained illegally The Daily Caller list many different ways that guns are obtained to commit a gun related crime, but not by the law abiding gun owner.According to the National Crime Victimization Survey   almost 43.6 million criminal victimization that occurred in 1993 , 4.4 million were crimes of rape or some type of sexual assault and of those crimes 1.3 million stated their offender had a gun. Guns saves just as many lives as  the person behind the gun commits a crime. An with that guns are not just used in crimes they are used in sporting events like skeet shooting, Summer Olympics and for hunting of food that has been  done for ages.
    I'm not just preaching to the choir on this , I have first hand experiences with a gun related crimes. My own brother Eric was shot and killed by a person with a stolen hand gun. The persons reasoning behind shooting him ,was that he thought he was in a gang because of the clothes he would wear. Also had two very close family friends killed by their own son and his friend , because they were to strict of parents, according to him. Both of these two individuals are behind bars for life. With that said I still believe that no one or government should take away any persons right that has been given to them by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There are many sites out there against gun control, but here are a few that I found very interesting Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, National Rifle  Association, New York State Rifle and Pistol and Gun Owners of America just to name a few.