That was me a few years ago. Then the more I began to think about it, the more pro/con arguments I read and coupled with my own personal observations and deductions I have grown to believe very strongly in gun rights. I believe the 2nd ammendment is crucially important to protecting our societal values, freedoms, American way of life and persons. I am now ready (finished researching and now own a safe) to buy my first gun and exercise my 2nd ammendment right.
Its unfortunate the OP wants to yield to shallow knee jerk emotional over reactions instead of critically and honestly looking at an issue. My impression is he just heard his liberal professor say guns are evil and we need to be more like Europe since that is the liberal academia wet dream cliche. And his first emotional reaction is to just hap hazardly run with it and not actually honestly look at the issue objectively.
Law abiding citizens with guns are not a problem.
Law abiding citizens need to be able to protect themselves and their families.
There are already enough guns on the black market anyway let alone buying them legally.
Criminals by their very actions do not care about laws and are willing to break them.
A gun is a tool. Period. So are pipe bombs, pressure cookers samurai swords, dull hunting knives and SUVs. Any of them can be used to kill.
The 2nd ammendment guarantees the others. The founding fathers who were a hell of a lot wiser that I am thought so.