[quote=@SleepingSilence] OFCOURSE! No one needs an AR-17. OFCOURSE! What's next people are going to assume arms in the 2nd amendment means access to nuclear arms? What about landmines!? WE NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION. (Tips: Read in Cenk Uygur voice.) Edit: (If I must be serious for a moment. Sorry.) Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. According to the National Safety Council. Upwards of 200,000 women use a firearm to defend themselves from sexual abuse each year. From Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime." Among many actual stats I could use... *awkward cough* [/quote] I have a problem here. While it is good that you are citing a source, it is also one of the most disputed, and hard to believe sources there is, regarding defensive gun useage. https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/myth-3-25-million-defensive-gun-uses-each-year-cant-be-accurate It is something however, that there will never be hard, concrete factual data about.