McCain and gun control

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-04-19-mccain_N.htm
The 2008 presidential candidate, John McCain, said a very shocking thing that he believes in “no gun control.” This is the strongest affirmation to support gun control since the massacre at Virginia Tech. This is shocking considering all those lives that were lots in Virginia Tech and all of the other school shootings that could have been prevented if there were sharper gun owner rights. If we made it harder to register and aquire a gun, then fewer unwanted shootings would happen, and especially in schools and churches were many innocent children get killed. By just saying that gun owners should lock their guns in their homes, which was McCain’s take on the issue at first, is a cop out for the greater issue that there needs to be harsher restrictions for purchasing a gun. McCain has recently changed his position from gun owners should keep their guns locked up to there should be no gun control because that would violate the second amendment to the Constitution that states we have the right to bear arms. I believe that we can satisfy the second amendment and keep children safe at schools, if we think smartly about the issue.
If we made the registration for a gun a long process, then this would satisfy both situations because no one would be able easily purchase a gun. We do not want to make gun control too harsh and punishing because then it will result in a underground mophia-type dealing. Like when the United States banded all alcohol in the prohibition. It turned into an underground criminal act. This is why the prohibition was then taken back because it became a larger mess than we all wanted to deal with. I think the politians can find a “happy medium” that could satisfy a majority of people. McCain’s position on gun control is very shocking because usually someone is not at the very extreme of the spectrum, and if he wants to get votes out of that comment, he is not going to get very main because lots of people were affected by the massacres that are continually happening in schools around the US.