12 Defensive Gun Uses Bare Absurdity of Attacking Gun Rights – Daily Signal

In a legal battle that made national headlines, the governor of New Mexico last month sought to unilaterally suspend the right of residents to bear arms in public.

This insanely unconstitutional measurewhich courts fortunately brought to a quick haltwould be troubling on its own, given the Supreme Courts clear defining of the right to keep and bear arms in the 2022 case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

However, the move by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is merely the most recent in a long parade of attacks by gun control activist politicians seeking to thumb their noses at the Supreme Court and undermine the Second Amendment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, just signed into law 23 new gun control measures, despite the fact that his state already faces myriad legal challenges to its existing restrictions.

Earlier this summer, Newsom proposed a 28th Amendment to enshrine gun control in the U.S. Constitution.

Since the Supreme Courts Bruen ruling, Maryland has gone to such great lengths to impose restrictions on concealed carry permit holders that even an Obama-appointed judge was willing to find that the state crossed constitutional lines.

Massachusetts, meanwhile, is trying to ban the sale or future possession of millions of commonly owned semiautomatic firearms.

Its important to understand what these laws all have in common. Rather than protecting Americans by addressing very real problems such as rogue prosecutors and lack of accountability for repeat violent offenders, these politicians are focused on depriving as many peaceable Americans as possible of their natural right of self-defense.

And thats a problem.

Almost every major study has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between500,000 and 3 milliontimesannually, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged. In 2021, the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the issue concluded thatroughly 1.6 million defensive gun usesoccur in the United States every year.

For this reason,The Daily Signalpublishes a monthly article highlighting some of the previous months many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missedor that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accountsherefrom past months and years. You also may follow@DailyDGUon Twitter for daily highlights of defensive gun uses.)

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in September. You may explore more using The Heritage Foundations interactiveDefensive Gun Use Database.(The Daily Signal is Heritages news organization.)

As these examples make clear, peaceable Americans routinely rely on their Second Amendment rights to protect themselves and others from criminals.

With crime rates spiraling out of control, law-abiding Americans deserve better than desperate attempts by gun control activists to blame and jeopardize their right to keep and bear arms. This constitutional right remains an important last line of defense against anyone who would threaten life, liberty, or property.

The correct response to criminal violence is to crack down on violent criminals, not to threaten potential victims who merely want to defend themselves when the government cant or wont protect thema scenario that, unfortunately, is becoming increasingly common.

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