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By Tom Knighton
Bearing Arms<\/a><\/p>\n

June 22, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The United States is unique in so many ways, and most of those are a big part of what makes this country so great. Especially when it comes to the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

Here, we\u2019re free to buy firearms and use them without begging for permission from the government. We\u2019re citizens, after all, not subjects. We shouldn\u2019t have to answer to anyone so long as we do nothing to harm our fellow man.<\/p>\n

Recently, the United Nations found that the United States accounts for\u00a0more than 40 percent of the civilian-owned weapons worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A new report finds civilians in the United States own more guns than those in any other country holding nearly 40 percent of the estimated 857 million guns in private hands.<\/p>\n

In a report released Monday, the Geneva-based\u00a0Small Arms Survey<\/a>\u00a0says Americans own 393 million firearms more than the combined total owned in the survey\u2019s other top 25 countries. The report comprises data collected during the past decade.<\/p>\n

By comparison, India and China, which each have populations of about 1.3 billion people, came in second and third place respectively, with 71 million and 49.7 million civilian-owned guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinary American people buy approximately 14 million new and imported guns each year,\u201d said study author Aaron Karp at a news conference launching the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I\u2019m sure this is presented as something we should probably be ashamed of, but if I\u2019m ashamed of anything it\u2019s the fact that the percentage isn\u2019t higher.<\/p>\n