When the data on gun related crime and incidents is properly analyzed, it becomes very obvious that the gun, in and of itself, is not one of the roots of the problems that plague modern society. The failure of the anti-gun advocates to recognize that vast corpus of contrary scholarship reflects that fact that the “ Great American Gun War” is really a culture conflict. It is less about criminology than about ideology and morality. [1]

Both sides of the gun control lobby fall back on the Second Amendment of the constitution to support their arguments. The key question in looking at the Second Amendment is whether or not the founding fathers were trying to maintain an individual citizens right to possess personal firearms or whether to allow for the State to maintain a militia.

If the authors of the constitution were not addressing

The pro-gun lobby would take all this to mean that there should be no restrictions at all on gun ownership. Although the Second Amendment clearly allows for personal firearm ownership, it does not prohibit laws to keep guns from criminals, children, or the mentally ill. It also does not state that individuals may own or possess weapons of mass destruction. There is nothing in the Second Amendment that prohibits laws that would enact reasonable restrictions on obtaining and possessing personal firearms.

5. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED SATES OF AMERICA.

4. Knox, R., “Should You Have a Home Defense Gun?” in GUNS AND AMMO GUIDE TO GUNS FOR HOME DEENSE 108, G. James ed. 1975

The FBI complies data on crime that is known as the FBI Uniform Crime Report. According to the data collected by the FBI for 1967, rape attacks in the city of Orlando were reduced over 88%, while aggravated assault and burglary declined by about 25%.

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