Mr autosurgeon: If you are a citizen of this society, it is your problem. Just as it is mine. If you are a gun owner, as am I, you are part of a group of people who are responsible for these problems. As I've pointed out in past threads, FBI stats indicate that over 223,000 firearms are lost or stolen EVERY YEAR. Many of those end up in the hands of criminals or crazies. Those guns aren't coming from gun haters. They're coming from us, the gun owners. So, either we police ourselves and go after some of these problems, or someone else will do it for us. We might not like their solution.