By passing gun-control legislation you are taking away the right earned in blood by generations of brave Americans, you are simply taking away the right of self-protection. Chicago, IL has the strictest gun-control laws in the United States and you are twice as likely to die in Chicago then you are in Afghanistan. For the past eleven years and four months, 2,166 people have been killed, and in only 8 years in Chicago over 4,000 people have been killed, not one of those guns was used to a licensed individual. Modeling the control of guns based on this issue is flawed in that it takes the guns from those who need them and forces them to rely on a police force that is currently overwhelmed in most large