Here are some Amazing Numbers I found at TheTruthAboutGuns.com

The Anti-Gunners like to claim that more people die because of guns than vehicle accidents, yet look at the two charts, one counts suicides, the other one doesn’t.

State Gun Deaths MV Deaths Alaska 104 84 Arizona 856 809 Colorado 583 565 Indiana 735 715 Michigan 1095 977 Nevada 406 255 Oregon 417 394 Utah 260 256 Virginia 836 827 Washington 623 580

The data seem kind of sparse; what were the causes of death? Were they suicides, homicides, accidents? We know that suicide rates are independent of method (that is, restricting access to firearms may reduce the suicide rate with firearms, but it does not affect the overall suicide rate) so let’s and remove suicides from the totals.

State Gun Accident and Homicide MV Accident and Homicide Alaska 17 84 Arizona 228 807 Colorado 108 557 Indiana 267 714 Michigan 507 962 Nevada 97 254 Oregon 55 391 Utah 30 256 Virginia 285 826 Washington 118 574

Source: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/05/bruce-krafft/comparing-car-and-gun-fatalities-is-misleading-and-irrelevant/

As you can see, when you take out the suicides, the numbers dropped dramatically.

Another interesting fact is that most people who become homicide victims had it coming:

People with a criminal record are also more likely to die as homicide victims. Between 1990 and 1994, 75% of all homicide victims age 21 and younger in the city of Boston had a prior criminal record. In Philadelphia, the percentage of those killed in gun homicides that had prior criminal records increased from 73% in 1985 to 93% in 1996. In Richmond, Virginia, the risk of gunshot injury is 22 times higher for those males involved with crime.

Source: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/10/bruce-w-krafft/the-costs-and-benefits-of-the-second-amendment-without-the-benefits/

But let’s forget about those who are murdered by men with guns, and let’s look at those saved by guns. BloombergBusinessweek, hardly a pro-gun outfit, wrote the following:

2. A conservative estimate of the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of times a year; 100,000 is not a wild gun-nut fantasy.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense

There are other numbers of course:

According toBureau of Justice Statistics numbers, each year between 1987 and 1992 about 62,200 victims of violent crimes used guns to defend themselves, while another 20,000 annually used guns to protect property. According to the National Self-Defense Survey conducted by criminology professor Gary Kleck of Florida State University in 1993, Americans used guns 2.3 million times a year to defend themselves between 1988 and 1993.

Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0130/Gun-control-101-Do-Americans-often-use-firearms-in-self-defense

So while we may not have the exact number, it’s clear that far more are saved by guns than killed by criminals with guns.

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