Guns save lives

Following the Paris attacks, the Colorado Springs shooting, the San Bernardino shooting, and other horrendous attacks involving guns, we would like to provide some food for thought as we will no doubt be forced into yet another tiresome "national discussion" about our Second Amendment rights.

Click the map below for stories of situations in which a firearm was used to preserve human life via GunsSaveLives.net.

According to the Gun Owners of America ...

* Guns save more lives than they take [and] prevent more injuries than they inflict 

* 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. ... 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. ... 

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker. ... 

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606). ... And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."...

(It's a 2008 article, but hey -- the same liberal arguments were being used then, too.)