The public has heard many arguments that guns at home are much less likely to defend against unknown intruders than they are to cause accidental, suicidal, and angry shootings of people belonging or known to the household. Tragic cases of shooting deaths among juveniles support this viewpoint, as do incidents of one adult shooting another over a disagreement. Gun control opponents offer their own statistics, using them to disagree with regulation proponents at different levels. Furthermore, regulation opponents claim that there is no research to substantiate the theory that private gun ownership turns differences of opinion into bloody shootouts. In fact, since the liberalization of the concealed carry laws, over one million Americans have obtained a license to carry a firearm, and the accidental death rate has not even slightly increased.
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