The 2nd Amendment is about Freedom

​As I've discussed before, the second amendment is about freedom - the basic freedom to to protect yourself.  Check out the liberal agenda pushed by CNN in their article to discuss the latest homicide statistics compiled by the CDC.  This article quotes Daniel Webster, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins, several times.  None of his quotes have any scientific basis - just standard anti-gun rhetoric.

Here's one example: "The available data suggests that as we make it easier and easier for more and more civilians to carry guns wherever they want, we end up with more homicides and other firearm-related crimes," Webster said.  The statistics compiled by the CDC are for murders and are not for law abiding citizens.   He's drawing a completely incorrect conclusion from data.  

Halfway through the article, the writer finally provides a more reasonable perspective from Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America:  "Guns are deadly. But that also makes them effective for self-defense."'Breakdowns in society', a CDC-sponsored study from 2013 found that "guns are used in self-defense anywhere from 500,000 to 3 million times a year," Pratt said. "That means that compared to the CDC figures for 'firearm homicides' in 2016, guns are being used 35 to 208 times more often to save [lives]."