This was the rationale for having guns in my childhood home. Of the 743 gunshot deaths, only two involved an intruder killed during an attempted entry. Police and courts determined that only nine of these homicides were justified. Gun fatalities are projected to become the leading cause of injury-related death by the year 2003. Unfortunately, he would be correct in saying that.
Guns are currently out of control in America.
A study conducted by the United Nations indicates that America has higher numbers of fatalities related to guns than all other industrialized and developing nations. Children in America are 12 times more likely to die from gun injury than are children in other industrialized nations. While I was teaching English and living in Asia, guns and crime sometimes became a topic of conversation in my classrooms. I explained to my students that I had learned to shoot a gun when I was growing up, and they suddenly scrutinized me with wide eyes of amazement. After I told them no, I still felt a little barbaric.