Mark W. Smith: Clever but Wrong -- Inside the Anti-Gun Arguments at the Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : As recounted in an amicus brief filed by law enforcement groups and others in Bruen, the number of concealed-carry permit holders increased from 2.7 million in 1999 to 19.48 million in 2019.
49% : That standard, established in District of Columbia v. Heller, holds that the constitutionality of gun laws turns on the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment and gun rights during America's founding.
38% : Restrictive gun laws, Beccaria added, don't prevent murder but rather encourage it, "as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons."
35% : Even if New York lifts its restriction, applicants for licenses to carry would presumably still need to satisfy eligibility requirements such as confirming that they are not felons, they are not mentally ill, and that they do not use illegal drugs.
33% : Shortly after the Supreme Court's Heller ruling, researchers sympathetic to gun control looked at the data and concluded that permit holders posed a low risk of misusing guns.

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