{"id":954,"date":"2023-07-15T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/23\/?p=954"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:29:40","slug":"sorry-gov-newsom-but-citizens-want-to-use-guns-to-defend-themselves-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/23\/news\/sorry-gov-newsom-but-citizens-want-to-use-guns-to-defend-themselves-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Gov. Newsom, but Citizens Want to Use Guns to Defend Themselves, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"
PLACERVILLE, Ca. (InEDC) Amy Swearer, Pierce Sandlin \/ July 14, 2023<\/pre>\n
Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his\u00a0proposal for a 28th Amendment<\/a>\u00a0to the U.S. Constitution, which the Democrat says would \u201censhrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law while leaving the Second Amendment unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the Second Amendment protects individual liberty by telling the government what it can\u2019t do with respect to gun control regulations, Newsom\u2019s proposed constitutional amendment would tell the government what it must do to restrict individual liberty through gun control.<\/p>\n
The California governor\u2019s proposal would ban civilian sales for semiautomatic firearms\u00a0commonly owned by millions of Americans<\/a>, strip law-abiding young adults of their right to keep and bear arms, and (in the form of waiting periods and universal background checks) impose many layers of bureaucratic red tape between peaceable citizens and the exercise of their natural right to self-defense.<\/p>\n
The notion that this idea would do anything other than gut the Second Amendment is, of course, laughable. And despite Newsom\u2019s insistence that these measures are popular, they\u2019ve been passed only by a small minority of states. His amendment has no chance whatsoever of being passed by a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress, much less of being ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures.<\/p>\n
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The reality is that more than 230 years after Congress ratified it, the Second Amendment continues to\u00a0play an integral role<\/a>\u00a0in preserving Americans\u2019 natural rights, particularly from criminals who would harm them.<\/p>\n
Almost every major study has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between\u00a0500,000 and 3 million\u00a0times<\/a>\u00a0annually, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged. In 2021, the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the issue concluded that\u00a0roughly 1.6 million defensive gun uses<\/a>\u00a0occur in the United States every year.<\/p>\n
For this reason,\u00a0The Daily Signal\u00a0<\/a>publishes a monthly article highlighting some of the previous month\u2019s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed\u2014or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0from past months and years. You also may follow\u00a0@DailyDGU<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter for daily highlights of recent defensive gun uses.)<\/p>\n
The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in June. You may explore more using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive\u00a0Defensive Gun Use Database<\/a>.\u00a0(The Daily Signal is Heritage\u2019s multimedia news organization.)<\/p>\n