It is estimated that 2.5 million civilians defend themselves and their families from criminals by using a gun every year or 6,850 times per day. In December of 2007, 24 year old Matthew Murray went on a killing spree starting at a YWAM training facility where he killed two and woundeding two others before moving to his next destination. Murray then arrived at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs still carrying a number of firearms. Murray killed two more people and injured three before he was shot and wounded by a member of the church congregation, Jeanne Assam. Jeanne, a civilian, shot the gunman with a legally purchased weapon that she kept on her person. The number of lives she saved that day will never be known, but without question many are grateful that she was there and armed.
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Presidential candidates have made the sales and ownership of guns a major discussion point in their political platforms. Earlier this year, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called the Second Amendment “one of the six great flaws with the U.S. Constitution.” Justice Stevens, called for the constitution to be amended to say, “gun possession was only for state militias, not individuals.”
School and church shootings, police being shot, movie watchers being gunned down as well as a limitless list of violent crimes are in the headlines daily. The pressure is on lawmakers to do something, yet most Americans agree it is not take away gun ownership. There is no question that from our President to our local congressman everyone is feeling the pressure to find any solution for a situation that many Americans feel is out of control, but the bottomline remains a constant, 67% of Americans do not want to lose their constitutional right to have and own the guns of their
Presidential candidates have made the sales and ownership of guns a major discussion point in their political platforms. Earlier this year, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called the Second Amendment “one of the six great flaws with the U.S. Constitution.” Justice Stevens, called for the constitution to be amended to say, “gun possession was only for state militias, not individuals.”
School and church shootings, police being shot, movie watchers being gunned down as well as a limitless list of violent crimes are in the headlines daily. The pressure is on lawmakers to do something, yet most Americans agree it is not take away gun ownership. There is no question that from our President to our local congressman everyone is feeling the pressure to find any solution for a situation that many Americans feel is out of control, but the bottomline remains a constant, 67% of Americans do not want to lose their constitutional right to have and own the guns of their