The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, …show more content…
This study also shows at state levels that the largest drops in violent crimes are when there is an increase in gun ownership. The National Rifle Association (NRA), said that guns are used for self-defense approximately two and a half million times a year. Pew research stated that gun control would make it more difficult for people to protect the families and their homes. Executive Vice President of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, quoted “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”. In May 2013 a survey found that forty-eight percent of convicted felons omitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew their victims would be armed with a …show more content…
Firearms was the twelfth leading cause of death between the years of 1999 and 2013, which left guns responsible for a little over one percent of 464,033 deaths. Internationally its claimed that the USA has a major problem with firearm related homicides. It has been found that this statement is highly overrated, the USA was ranked twenty-eight in the national homicide rates with about three per one hundred thousand people murdered from a gun related