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The right to bear arms is protected by the constitution under the second amendment and as is known to be a basic civil right so I thought of taking the discussion to the next level and view current situation with regards to gun use.
UCLA professor emeritus James Q. Wilson, a respected expert on crime, police practices and guns, says, “We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as 2-and-a-half or 3 million. We don’t know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it’s not a trivial number.”
The same article gives the statistics that in 200312,548 people died through non-suicide gun violence, including homicides, accidents and cases of undetermined intent.
Can we count the use of guns vs. the use of guns for purposes of crime and aggression? Probably not as many cases as is obvious from the numbers don’t end up in shooting and actually this is part of the purpose.
In any case all attempts to restrict the right to bear arms are going to meet severe opposition as is evident from the case of Montana that even defined it as part of the grounds on which it joined the union . Check here for more on this issue
