Here are examples of why the right to bear arms is so essential. Amy Swearer writes:
Every day, untold numbers of Americans rely on their Second Amendment rights to protect their lives and livelihoods.
According to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times a year. There’s good reason to believe that most of these defensive gun uses aren’t reported to police, much less make the local or national news.
For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous month’s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed—or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read accounts from 2019 and so far in 2020 here.)
The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in August. You may explore more examples by using The Heritage Foundation’s interactive Defensive Gun Use Database.
[Amy Swearer, "These 10 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Underscore Second Amendment’s True Purpose,” The Daily Signal, September 10]
