Posted March 22, 2018 7:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Anti-Second Amendment activists love to tout certain numbers. They throw out the total number of people killed with a gun, even if it’s by their own hand. They love to scream these numbers until they’re blue in the face as if that alone is sufficient reason to curtail the rights of law-abiding Americans.

But as Paul Hsieh at Forbes argues, there are some numbers the gun control crowd tends to ignore. In fact, he mentions them in the context of three principles that researchers and analysts should remember.

The first principle is:

Firearms save lives as well take lives.

If one imagines that guns in civilian hands are used solely as murder weapons, it makes sense to ban or strictly regulate them.

But millions of Americans legally carry a firearm every day, and most cite self-defense as their primary reason. The overwhelming majority of the time, those guns are never drawn in anger. But innocent civilians can and do sometimes use their guns in self-defense. Any discussion of firearms policy must acknowledge the lives saved by legal use of guns as well as the lives lost by criminal use.

The numbers of defensive gun uses (DGUs) each year is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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