https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2018-02-23 16:19:11 UTC 2025-09-30 13:08:28 UTC hello@padlet.com ebnerab22 https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766226 https://gun-control.procon.org/]]> 2018-02-23 16:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766226 ebnerab22 https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766326 The United States has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270,000,000 guns, which is the highest total and per capita number in the world. 22% of Americans own one or more guns (35% of men and 12% of women). America's pervasive gun culture stems in part from its colonial history, revolutionary roots, frontier expansion, and the Second Amendment, which states: "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."]]> 2018-02-23 16:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766326 ebnerab22 https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766532 Proponents of more gun control laws state that the Second Amendment was intended for militias; that gun violence would be reduced; that gun restrictions have always existed; and that a majority of Americans, including gun owners, support new gun restrictions. ]]> 2018-02-23 16:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766532 ebnerab22 https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766595 The Second Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified on Dec. 15, 1791. The notes from the Constitutional Convention do not mention an individual right to a gun for self-defense. Some historians suggest that the idea of an individual versus a collective right would not have occurred to the Founding Fathers because the two were intertwined and inseparable: there was an individual right in order to fulfill the collective right of serving in the militia]]> 2018-02-23 16:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/234766595 ebnerab22 https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/235517029 2018-02-26 17:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ebnerab22/9lfu1gqw1ibm/wish/235517029