The 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees, "The right of the people

to bear and keep arms shall not be infringed." This fundamental freedom
protects the rights of gun owners and restrains the presence of criminal
activity and tyranny. All too often, some politicians and members of the media
want to blame the presence of guns for acts of violence and use tragedy as a
reason to restrict the fundamental freedom to bear arms. We must not,
however, take away the right to self-protection for 300 million citizens, due to
the criminal actions of a handful.
https://aderholt.house.gov/issues/gun-rights

Gun Control Laws

Pros:
● More gun control laws would reduce death
● High-capacity magazines should be banned because they too often turn murder
into mass murder.
● Guns are rarely used in self defense
● Fewer Suicides
● The Second Amendment was intended to protect the right of militias to own
guns, not the right of individuals.

Cons:
● The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects individual gun
ownership.
● Gun control laws do not deter crime; gun ownership deters crime.
● Gun control laws infringe upon the right to self-defense and deny people a sense
of safety.
● Gun control laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking laws.
● More gun control is unnecessary because relatively few people are killed by guns.

The United States has 120.5 guns per 100 people, or about 393,347,000 guns, which is
the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or
more guns (35% of men and 12% of women). America’s pervasive gun culture stems in
part from its colonial history, revolutionary roots, frontier expansion, and the Second
Amendment, which states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
https://gun-control.procon.org
Around half of Americans (48%) see gun violence as a very big problem in the
country today

Attitudes about gun violence differ widely by race, ethnicity, party and
community type

Roughly half of Americans (53%) favor stricter gun laws, a decline since 2019

Americans are divided over whether restricting legal gun ownership would
lead to fewer mass shootings

Gun ownership is closely linked with views on gun policies. This is true even
among gun owners and non-owners within the same political party
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-america
ns-and-guns/
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