ith a gun, and 38 percent had been scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim.Another main reason that guns are needed for self-defense is that there are about 500,000 police officers in the United States. Adjusting for three shifts per day, vacations, desk duty, etc. That leaves about 75,000 police on patrol at any moment to protect 250 million Americans. That’s one police officer for every 3,360 potential victims. 1 per 3,360 that is a very bad average. Every year five million people are victims of violent crimes – murder, rape, robbery, or life threatening assaults. That would or could be stooped be a yielding armed citizen.Supreme Court held a case in 1856 and decided that local law enforcement officers had a general duty to enforce laws, not to protect a particular person. In 1982 a federal court of appeals said: “…there is no constitutional right to protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such predators, but it does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteen Amendments or, we suppose any other provision of the Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: its tells the state to let people alone, it does not require the federal government or the state to provide services, even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order.” These rulings are consistent with the original intent of the founding fathers. They assumed that law abiding citizen would be able it fend for them self. This becoming impossible with all the gun control bills that are being passed. Gun controls are issues that are facing the people in the United States today. As you have seen demistrated in this paper. Gun control does not take guns away from the criminals, it just take them away from the every day peaceful citizen, who need then for the self-defense....
