Where the so-called "antis" are concerned, reason or facts matter not at all. "Cop Killer Bullets" was a phrase jumped on by the anti-gun movement. It was so beautiful. Who could vote against banning cop killer bullets? No one in their right mind. It was a simple wash in the senate and in the house. Practically unopposed, and another chink in the armor of the 2nd fell pretty much overnight. You must understand fully, that there are those in government that want the guns, all of the guns out of the hands of "We the People". They will continue until they succeed. They have all the time in the world. They live for events like the Columbine shooting to further their cause for them. You notice how quickly they responded full of energy and fight to further their political agendas on blood of the dead of Columbine? They didn't even hesitate! Not for 5 minutes. For shame!
Cop Killer Bullets? What nonsense. It is an infringement, pure and simple. Never mind that before this issue was raised, KTW rounds were never used to kill a Law Enforcement Officer who was wearing body armor, never mind that by bringing a full flung public debate to the issue gave a full education to anyone paying any attention at all, to the safety proceedures Law Enforcement utilizes to protect themselves. All the baddies who otherwise may not have known, now know to try and get a headshot.
All of these matters are fine for polite discussion, but I know for a hard fact that an armed citizen is a serious deterent to crime, first hand, hard fact. Not a relative sort of mental exercise kind of statistical analysis.
The right to keep and bear arms, like all human rights, exists independent of the Bill of Rights. The government has no authority to infringe on these rights.
Allowing the "government" access to small arms that are denied the people is an infringement, BY DEFINITION. Look it up.
Arms control is as old as society, it is the tool of oppression, this is historic fact. Crime is as old as history, it exists independent of arms. The only correlation between arms and crime is the better armed the population, the lower the violent crime. I mean crime, I don't mean active warfare like the Middle East. This is historic fact, it has always been this way, it is this way, and all empirical evidence strongly suggests it will remain this way. There is no counter argument.