U.S. judge denies Texas professors who sought gun ban in their classrooms

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195. Gun ownership is for personal protection. To answer your question is to subsume gun

ownership is social policy; that is it affects societal conditions. I don't subsume that (though some think more guns equals less crime). I see the larger question as that of personal self-defense. To many gun-owners, the crime rate, though lower, is still enough of a threat to keep and/or bear arms. But long term, the right to keep and bear arms has been very much restricted until the "civil rights era." Now, the Second is enjoying a liberal expansion as have most all other rights, save the Fourth. (I note some casual disregard for the Due Process clause of the 5th as well, esp. in these threads.) That long term "renaissance" probably drives liberal legislation to better enable gun-bearing more than the crime rate.

Having guns, to be clear, is both blamed and lauded as affecting crime rates. Clealy, I can't buy into the blame game as the number of guns has skyrocketed even as gun-homicides have fallen. Converesely, that does not mean that crime rates have fallen as a result of a gun number increase. That has not been studied too well, imo. For now, the answer to falling gun homicides is still out there.