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Gun Legalization In USA. The Second Alteration to the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the option to carry weapons, and about 33% of U.S. grown-ups say they by and by own a weapon. Simultaneously, President Joe Biden and other policymakers recently proposed new limitations on gun access with an end goal to address weapon brutality going from increasing homicide rates in a few significant urban communities to mass shootings.

Gun ownership in the United States is rooted in the Second Amendment of the Constitution: “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.”

The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has 46 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns, according to the most recent report by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey (2018). It ranks number one in firearms per capita. The United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate of the world’s most-developed nations. Many gun rights proponents say these statistics do not indicate a causal relationship.