According to a 1994 study sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, an agency of the U.S. Justice Department, Americans use guns defensively, to protect themselves from crime, between 1.5 million and 3.0 million times per year. These results are consistent with other scholarly studies, which have estimated 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year. We ve considered the facts, and we don t hate guns. We do hate crime. More gun laws won t stop or prevent crime.
Criminals are, by definition, law-breakers.
They will ignore and violate gun laws the same as they do other laws. America is a free country, so you can think whatever you want about guns. Nobody in America is forced to own a gun, or let their children play with kids whose families own guns. You should not be forced to compromise your best judgment about how to protect yourself and your family. And neither should other law-abiding citizens who don t happen to hate guns.