Guns

Guns and the Second Amendment:

In 2006, there were 30,896 gun deaths in the United States.

• 12,791 were homicides
• 16,883 were suicides
• 642 were unintentional shootings
• 360 from legal intervention
• 220 from undetermined intent

If we outlaw guns, how many lives might be saved? People will still kill people. As they say, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. So we might still have over 12,000 homicides each year. Those of us, who want to put an end to our lives, will find another way to commit suicide, so we can presume that 16,000 plus suicides would still occur, and the police will still shoot about 350 people (hopefully only criminals) each year. So that leaves just under 1,000 lives saved.

Liberty and the second amendment. If we outlaw automobiles, we could save over 40,000 lives a year. And automobile ownership is NOT guaranteed in the United States Constitution. A small, yet vocal, percent of our population is suggesting that the second amendment be ignored. They use all sorts of excuses from saving lives (1,000 of them as shown above) to the original intent of our founding fathers, that only the militia should carry arms. The fact of the matter is, the Constitution guarantees our right, as individuals to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment is an insurance policy against the government suppressing the freedom and will of the people. The authors of the Constitution were wise enough to know that the people must rule our nation, not the government.

(Numbers obtained from CDC National Center for Health Statistics mortality report online, 2009.)

Oklahoma now has a Second Amendment voice, the Oklahoma 2nd Amendment Association.