Their studies suggest that, in fact, more guns would make our society even safer. According to the DOJ, each year 80,000 people's lives are saved because they had a gun at that critical moment, the one that decides one's fate.life or death. Indeed, if we were to take away the right of the people to keep and bear arms, people like Sebron Mitchell, a 91-year-old man from Augusta, Georgia, could very well be dead right now. He was in his home on a Saturday afternoon, when a man kicked down his front door, put a knife to his throat, and demanded his money. When the burglar began rifling through the drawers, Sebron grabbed a revolver and shot the intruder, forcing him to flee. Sebron escaped with his life that day because he had a gun. This is just one example, one in 80,000 people who can say, "My gun saved my life." .

             In 1919, William Burroughs posed the question, "After a shooting spree, why do they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it?" The answer, anti-gun proponents claim, is to see that it never happens again. It is very curious, though, that the anti-gun proponents do not recognize the fact that every Federal law, every Federal regulation, every safeguard against these schoolyard shootings was completely disregarded. This is the proof that anti-gun legislation doesn't work. Over 180,000 students carry guns to school each day undetected. Yet, these Federal laws are supposed to prevent juveniles from obtaining firearms? Obviously not. So, what can be done about this problem? The answer can be found across the Canadian border. A group based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is working to educate people, in particular teens, as to the true nature of guns-not that a gun is evil, but that a gun is a tool, used to defend one's self-it has the potential to kill, and must be treated with the greatest respect at all times. That is what must be done here. We can't win the fight against people who abuse guns if you're afraid of them.