This column today is going to boil all the hyperbole away and look at the gun situation in our nation without rose-colored glasses for any side. As the old-detective on ‘Dragnet’ used to say; “Just the facts ma’am.”
FACTS;
The United States of America has an Amendment in the Bill of Rights that say’s; A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. America currently has an estimated 300,000,000 firearms on our streets or locked in a home vault or hung in the back window of a pickup truck with Texas license plates. Most of the owners of these firearms are legal, upstanding citizens who very seldom if ever even use them, much less, use them for anything other than hunting or target practice. Cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Detroit, etc.
