Adding more controls will limit or even eliminate the rights afforded by the United States Constitution to law-abiding citizens. Thomas Jefferson said, “No free man shall be forbidden the use of arms,” US citizens have a long tradition of owning firearms, it is not a trend, it is not new, the basis of the United States as a constitutional nation it is built on the given right to possess weapons in compliance with the law. Gun control advocates insist on adding more regulations, their motto being the death rate caused by firearms, such as suicides and accidental shootings. Alters (2009) affirmed this by stating that “[p]eople who use guns to commit suicide may also commit this act in other ways. Just like criminal shootings, firearms are available to anyone through legal or illegal means