| > A gun doesn't keep you or your family safe Defensive gun use is far more common in the USA than murders by firearms: http://guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html > when we look at the data, all of these provide no tangible benefit, and often great harm. No tangible benefit? Even 100,000 people saved by guns annually (the low end number) is "tangible benefit". According to the CDC, there are 11k homicides by firearms:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm If you look at other countries, when guns are banned there is a shift from guns to other methods of killing ,but not a significant decline in homicides. This is what you see when looking at the data. |