8 Charts You'll Only Get If You're Ready To Change The 2nd Amendment

1. Every year people die from gun violence. And the numbers are just increasing.

2. Over 17,000 (17,499) American children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides, suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, or by police intervention.

Over two-thirds of these tragedies could be avoided if gun owners stored their guns responsibly and kept them away from children.

3. The number of victims of jihadist terrorist attacks in the U.S. over the past 10 years overshadows those killed by firearms

4. Want to make America great again? We've already got greater homicide rates.

5. And a greater number of guns.

The United States has almost twice as many guns per 100 people as the next closest country, Yemen.

U.S.: 8.8 guns per 100
Yemen: 54.8

6. Things looked a lot different back in the day.

7. Let's look at "arms" as they existed at the time of the ratification

8. Let's take a closer look at the differences

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