Why is it necessary for people to have guns in America?

The UK used to have rights as free Englishmen, but since it wasn't written down anywhere, just being an governmentally inconvenient tradition and precedent it was quite mutable. Your question has a two part answer. Part 1. It isn't necessary in America for people to have guns. read more

As many other fine answers to this question have pointed out: there are in fact guns in the UK. But I’m not going to focus on that, self-defense, or any of the other ground already covered extensively by my peers. read more

Why People Own Weapons To start, I believe in the right of citizens to be armed. I own what others in this country call “weapons of war,” and to me this is the only appropriate way of things. read more

Most Americans (57%) say they do not have a gun in their household. Gun ownership rates differ by gender, region, age, race, ethnicity and other demographics (See Section 3 of this report).Gun owners increasingly cite protection as the main reason they own a gun. And a large percentage (79%) say having a gun makes them feel safer. read more