Lightfoot added that such licensing is unconstitutional. The right to self defense in the U.S. is fundamental. The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives Americans the right to keep and bear arms. Nothing in that amendment says anything about licenses or registration. The senatorial challenger went on to say that people should remember that when the government grants permission, it can also take it away.
Children are two to three times more likely to die by accidents in the home than by a gun.
Lightfoot called the proposal just one more example of a government that keeps interfering in people s lives and adding more bureaucracies. Lightfoot said she and most other Americans would not feel safe without the right to own a gun. Police cannot protect everyone and criminals would be the only others that were armed. She asked how many people would feel safe with a Gun Free Zone sign in one s front yard.