The U.S. Constitution establishes the right of citizens to own firearms. The second amendment to the Constitution enshrines the right of every American citizen to own firearms for self defense. At the moment in the hands of private individuals in the United States about 250 million firearms is kept. Each year in the U.S. 5 million firearms, including pistols, rifles, shotguns are sold. At the same time reliable data on how much safer with the private lives of Americans who do not.
The portrait of the average buyer of firearms, according to The National Sporting Goods Association (the Association of Sporting Goods) is a male of middle class, aged 25-34 years. Some U.S. citizens at home keep the whole arsenal of small arms.
FBI statistics show that the number of cases in Missouri wrongful death suit with the use of firearms in the United States is gradually decreasing since the mid-1990s. The last peak rate is about 40 thousand cases – accounts for the year 1993. At the same time, the total number of crimes has decreased significantly.
In 32 states out of 51 Americans are allowed to carry firearms for self-defense. Researchers at the University of Chicago argued that the presence of residents of different states of such a permit at a legislative level, resulting, on average, to reduce the number of killings by 8%, robberies – 7% of rapes – by 5%. In such states, the rate of total number of violent crimes is more below the national average. For example, in 1976, in Washington, DC (U.S. capital) there was a ban on possession of firearms. As a result, by 1991 the number of robberies there has tripled, while the national average has risen only by 12%. Chicago – United States a major industrial center – is famous for the highest number of killings in the country, although the possession of a firearm in it is prohibited.
The true relationship of crime and the legal sale of weapons, according to the NSA, is contrary to the proponents of the ban: in fact, in regions with a high number of gun owners less violent crimes are committed.
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