Furthermore, scholars are increasingly taking the pro-gun view. Dr. Jim Wright and Dr. Gary Kleck have each backed away from their earlier support for gun control after doing massive studies on the subject. Dr. Kleck's research has uncovered the fact that as many as 2.5 million people use a firearm to defend themselves every year. This means that firearms are used more than 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. And most recently, Dr. John Lott of the University of Chicago has published the results of an exhaustive, 15-year study of crime in the U.S. and found that the most significant way to lower murder and violent crime rates in a state is to allow citizens to carry firearms concealed.
Gun control has no place in a free society.
The body of research is growing which shows that before the genocides of this century have been carried out by rogue governments, they first disarmed the target population. This country was founded on the opposite premise. Rather than suspect the people, we are to suspect the government and keep it under control. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. We don't need gun control, we need government control.