I not only own a gun, I own several. And while I agree that there is no real place for them in modern society... I have to say that would be totally true in a perfect world. I don't own a gun for protection from say a home invasion. I own a gun for protection and survival in a survival situation, when "modern society" either no longer exists, or is totally out of the picture: like when way the hell out in the bush. The fact is that if government tries to take guns out of the hands of fully law abiding citizens, it will never get guns out of the hands of criminals. England is a perfect example, now everyday people and even police are totally unprepared to deal with real world crime over there.
If you use a gun as personal security, in my opinion, you are fair game to be shot. Peoples reactions tend to mirror the situation so if you pull a gun, be prepared to get in a life or death struggle. But that being said I still own a gun , and will continue to buy them for as long as the gun registry is gone.
Sometimes the world forgets that the first thing Hitler did as a leader is institute one of the first gun registries.... after all its hard to fight against a dictator when he knows who owns all the guns

And while I know this statement is going to get me all sorts of grief, just think if somewhere in Columbine/Virginia Tech there was a teacher or worker, trained in the safe use of a weapon and armed, maybe it would have turned out differently