Gun-Control Fact Sheet: If There are Any Facts to Refute the Gun-Control Argument, It's These - Girls Just Wanna Have Guns

Gun-Control Fact Sheet: If There are Any Facts to Refute the Gun-Control Argument, It's These - Girls Just Wanna Have Guns: * Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year—or about 6,850 times a day.(1) This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.(2)

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense with a firearm every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of “Guns in America”—a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.(3)

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