On a warm winter day, class is in session in Redding, Calif. A
small group of Americans set their sights on earning a concealed
weapons permit. It’s a class that would never happen in a place
like England, where carrying a concealed weapon is illegal. The
United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the
world. According to a Gallup poll, 30 percent of Americans own a
gun. This adds up to an estimated 88 guns for every 100
Americans. The right to own a gun is in the Second Amendment,
something that sets the United States apart from most other
industrialized countries. Assistant Political Science Professor
Cherry McCabe lectures about gun rights as part of
constitutional law studies at Simpson University. She said the
U.S. has a strong tradition of individual liberty and that the
U.S. constitution was drafted to limit the federal government’s
powers on many issues, including gun laws. "In other countries,
many of their gun control restrictions reflect an entirely
different ideology,” said McCabe. “If