Why These Defensive Uses of Firearms
Should Disarm Second Amendment Skeptics
By Jonjayray. July 15th, 2019
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At a time when many high-profile politicians are comfortable proposing laws that impose serious burdens on the right to keep and bear arms, including the mass confiscation of commonly owned firearms, it’s important to remember that those same firearms are regularly used by average Americans to defend their life, liberty, and property.
While some gun control advocates claim the Second Amendment is a dangerous historical relic, even going so far as to call for its repeal, they often overlook the fact that firearms are significantly more likely to be used for self-defense than in criminal activity.
In fact, according to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost all national studies of defensive gun uses have found that firearms are used in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times every year in the United States.
Additionally, an independent analysis of the CDC’s own internal data on defensive gun uses indicates that firearms are used defensively about 1 million times a year, dwarfing the number of deaths and injuries attributable to their criminal use.
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It is useful from time to time to consider examples of defensive use of firearms in order to highlight the fact that guns can save lives. All too often those who seek to make law abiding people disarmed choose to ignore this, although many in the anti-gun community frequently are either gun owners themselves or protected by armed body guards. "Don't do what I do - do what I say".
