Annual Number of firearm deaths in USA 16,121?

"Well ordered" are the words in the 2nd amendment that conservatives choose to ignore.

The left will stoop to any disgusting level to defeat any opponent, with vicious smear campaigns, such as they used on Sarah Palin. The better the person, and the more they are afraid of the opponent, the more disgusting, and vicious their smear campaigns become. It is just to bad that the right are just to honorable to do the same to their liberal opponents.

The fact a VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, minor number of the 90 million gun owners commit crimes with their weapons doesn't mean everyone needs to be disarmed anymore than the 30,000 fatal car crashes each year means we should take away everyone's car. Unlike the right to bear arms which is an inalienable right enshrined in the Bill of RIGHTS driving a car ISN'T a right it is a privilege so if you want to ban things that tragically kill people start with cars. Speaking of the Bill of Rights you do know they wanted to make the RIGHT to bear arms the first amendment but it was argued the right to free speech was only slightly more important because it protected the right to speak about the RIGHT to bear arms.

BTW, "According to the FBI in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US, with 6,371 of those attributed to handguns 61% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides".

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-...

> how well ordered is the average militia to which the average gun owner belings?

Membership in a militia ISN'T required to own a firearm this was determined in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) only the States have the right to form militias but they realized the people had to be armed at ALL TIMES to be able to serve as members of a militia upon being called up by the Government in time of collective need. You need your guns and ammo in hand BEFORE the "Zombies" or Confederates attack.

"This second post-Civil War era case related to the meaning of the Second Amendment rights relating to militias and individuals. The court ruled the Second Amendment right was a right of individuals, not militias, and was not a right to form or belong to a militia, but related to an individual right to bear arms for the good of the United States, who could serve as members of a militia upon being called up by the Government in time of collective need. In essence, it declared, although individuals have the right to keep and bear arms, a state law prohibiting common citizens from forming personal military organizations, and drilling or parading, is still constitutional because prohibiting such personal military formations and parades does not limit a personal right to keep and bear arms".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presser_v._Illinois

The SCOTUS believes in this principle so thoroughly they reaffirmed the INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) saying, "The Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_...

Oh, and I'll leave you with this tidbit of information that almost NOBODY knows

" Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone"

By LINDA GREENHOUSE

Published: June 28, 2005

WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotu...

Oh and this has ALWAYS been the case

"Warren v. District of Columbia (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is an oft-quoted District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police did not owe a specific duty to provide police services to the plaintiffs based on the public duty doctrine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of...

You can call the police I'll be calling on Smith & Wesson and my daughters will be just fine.

alcohol causes many more deaths . you should have that outlawed .

48000

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