“There are over 400 million privately owned guns in the United States.”
And how often to you suspect those firearms are used by citizens in legal, self-defense situations to prevent or stop a violent crime? (Hint: over 80000 times per year!) What does the DoJ have to say about that?
(Hint: over 80000 times per year!) What does the DoJ have to say about that?
The CDC, in an Obama Regime funded study, estimated the number of defensive gun uses to be between 500,000 and 2.5 million per year.
Defensive Use of Guns
“Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.”
https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#15