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A Factual Look at Guns in

America
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44% of U.S. Households 393 Million Guns Owned 57% Felons More Afraid
Own a Gun by U.S. Citizens of Armed Citizen Than
Source: Gallup Source: Small Arms Survey
Cop
Source: US Dept of Justice

Guns Used in Self Defense

According to the National Research Council study done during Obama’s presidency, guns are used for self defense between:

500,000 – 3 Million Times Every Year

(1,369 – 8,219 Times Every Day)
Because many cases of self defense are not reported to the police, this number may be even higher.
We have illustrated the low end of this estimate by putting ve hundred thousand dots below.

Now imagine 2.5 million+ MORE dots to illustrate the possible full extent guns are used for self defense.

Every single dot represents a citizen’s life or livelihood that was able to be saved with a gun – usually without ring a single shot.

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Criminal Acquisition of Guns

Politicians will often talk about “the gun show loophole”
and make it seem as if that was a primary source of guns being used to carry out crimes in America today.

However, a U.S. Department of Justice survey of prison inmates who had used a gun to carry out their crime found that only:

0.8% of Criminals
Purchased Their Gun at a Gun Show

7.3%
17%
Gun Store
Pawn / Flea
Gun Show
24.7%
Friend
Black Market
Stolen
Other
42.1%

A similar study carried out in Pittsburgh, found that nearly 80% of criminals caught with a rearm were not the legal owner of that gun.

Guns vs. Homicide

While the number of guns manufactured in the U.S. each year has increased dramatically,
the homicide rate has continued to fall at the same time.

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10000000

8000000 6

6000000

4000000 5

2000000

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00 002 004 006 008 010 012 014 016 018 00 02 04 06 08 10 12 14 16 18
20 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Guns Manufactured Each Year Homicide Rate Per 100k People

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Sources: Statista & Macrotrends

Concealed Carry
An analysis of the FBI crime statistics found that U.S. counties that adopted
Concealed carry laws saw a REDUCTION OF:

8.5% 5% 7% 3%
Murders Rapes Assaults Robberies

94%
Of Mass Shootings Occur in Gun Free Zones

Gun Free Zone

Gun Free Zone Gun Zone

Source

U.S. Ri e Stats
Whenever people start trying to ban guns, “assault” ri es such as the AR-15 are usually where they start. However, the number of homicides committed by ri es
in the U.S. is very low. There are approximately 20 million ri es in circulation in the U.S. today, yet they only accounted for 364 murders in 2019.

This equals a rate of:

1 Murder per 55,000 Ri es Owned

The rst dot in the top left is red to indicate a murder that was carried about by a criminal with a ri e. There are 54,999 other dots that represent ri es that are
owned and were not used for murder. To get an even more accurate idea of the scale of law abiding citizen owned ri es, you would have to multiply this chart
364 times.

Things That Kill More People Than Ri es

Here are a list of 5 things politicians could ban that would actually save more lives than an assault ri e ban.
You are nearly twice as likely to be murdered by being punched or kicked than you are from a ri e.

Fists, Hands & Feet 600 Murders

Knives 1,476 Murders

Clubs, Hammers & Bats 397 Murders

Falling From Stairs 1,307 Accidental Deaths

Falling Out of Bed 650 Accidental Deaths

Data from FBI & MongaBay. Ri e homicides in 2019 were 364.

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Police vs. Armed Citizens

Law enforcement can be invaluable if you are in a life threatening situation, but they are not always around.
Citizens have recently surpassed police in the number of justi able killings of a criminal to protect their life or the life of another person.

500

450
Justifiable Killings

400

350

300

250
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Police Citizens

Source: Statista

When the average school shooting lasts just 12 minutes, every second of response time saves lives.
How do police compare with armed citizens in this aspect?

Law Enforcement Armed Citizens

Response Time: 18 Minutes Response Time: Already On-Site
Size: 813,500 O cers Size: 81.7 Million Armed Citizens*

*Number of Armed Citizens calculated by multiplying 32% gun ownership rate x 255 Million Adults

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