What defines a person's idea of safety? For most people that ask that question the first thing that usually comes to mind is protection and guns are a good means of that. The United States has eighty eight guns per one hundred people, or about two hundred and seventy million guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. Twenty two percent of americans own one or more guns; thirty five percent are men and twelve percent are women. The two main reasons for so many guns is that hunting and personal defense has become commonplace in our society. There is also an ongoing debate at whether there are too many restrictions or too less on guns. Supporters of more gun control laws state that the second amendment was intended for the early day militias. Gun violence would decrease; and that restrictions have always been there and that the overall …show more content…
Activists of fun control often want more laws that would prevent mass shootings and call for background checks and more protecting from the mentally ill buying guns. Non advocates accuse activist of using a tragedy to further a lost cause. About four in ten gun owners say that there is a gun not only loaded but easily accessible to them at any time while at home. Twenty six percent say they carry a gun outside of the home all or most of the time. Partisanship is strongly correlated with views about gun ownership as a guaranteed right. Among gun owners republicans and republican leaning independents are about twice as likely as democrats and democratic leaners say owning a gun is essential to their freedom. In fact republican non owners are more likely than democratic owners to view the right to own guns as an essential to their freedom. Overall half of americans say gun violence is a problem in the us six out of ten non gun owners see gun violence as a very big problem in the county today, only a third of adults who own guns say the