"Ever wonder why we have never had a dictator in this country" - there are lots of countries that have either tighter gun control laws than the US or looser gun control laws than the US that have never had a dictator either, so your argument that the guns in the hands of your citizens has prevented the rise of a dictator is invalid.
Blah - don't feed the troll. Just ignore him when he spirals the discussion to his own delusions of logic.
Here in the US we are not permitted to own a fully automatic weapon without a permit and those were not included in the assault weapons ban anyway.
Just what laws prevent criminals from getting guns? They are criminals because they do not obey the laws and laws only affect the rest of us. You want to reduce murders bring back public executions and none of these lethal injections use hangings or firing squads or hand them over to the Comanches for skinning.
People are more easily controlled when you remove their weapons.
That's true but the constitution is not all of the laws. Are all of the laws constitutional? I do not know. We supposedly vote for people to hire people to make those decisions for us. That's US Government.
If you don't like what your elected officials are doing then get of your lazy ass and vote them out in the next election and keep doing that until they learn to listen to the people.