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AMERICA

How are guns being

used by citizens
in America each year?

= homicide + accide nt + suicide 1 = se lf de fe nse 2

Every year, guns are used over 80x more ofte n to prote ct a life than to take one! *

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270 Million 200,000 3/5 Tweet

APPROX. # OF CIVILIAN TIM ES A YEAR WOM EN USE A POLLED FELONS SAY THEY
FIREARM S IN AM ERICA 3 GUN TO DEFEND AGAINST WON’T M ESS WITH AN ARM ED
SEXUAL ABUSE 4 VICTIM 5

Gun Ownership
Vs Crime
an international perspective
Highest Gun Highest Intentional
Ownership Rate Homicide Rate
PER 100 RESIDENTS 6 PER 100,000 RESIDENTS 7

88.8 91.6
USA HONDURAS

54.8 69.2
YEM EN EL SALVADOR

45.7 56.9
SWITZERLAND CÔTE D'IVOIRE

45.3 52.2
FINLAND JAM AICA

A recent study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
concluded that there is a ne gativ e corre lation be twe e n gun owne rship
and v iole nt crime in countries internationally (more guns = less crime).

Nations with strict gun control laws hav e substantially highe r murde r

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rate s than those who do not in general. In fact, the 9 Europe an nations
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with the lowest gun owne rship rate hav e a combine d murde r rate 3x
that of the 9 Europe an nations with the highest gun owne rship rate ! 8

UNITED KINGDOM
CASE STUDY
“Most violent country in EU” 9

vs
POSSESSION OF HANDGUNS 2,034 VIOLENT CRIM ES 466 VIOLENT CRIM ES
IS ILLEGAL PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN UK** 9 PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN USA 9

In the decade following the Labor party's
election and banning of handguns in 1997,
the number of recorded violent attacks soared
by 77% to 1.2 million in '07- or more than 2
attacks e v e ry minute ! 9
Kitchen knives are being used in as
many as half of all stabbings in the
United Kingdom and has prompted a
group of doctors to call for a ban on
long pointe d kitche n kniv e s. 10

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Concealed Carry
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in America
An analysis of the FBI crime statistics found that states that adopted
concealed carry laws REDUCED: 11

8.5% 5% 7% 3%
Murders Rapes Aggravated Assaults Robberies

With just one e xce ption, e v e ry public mass shooting in the

USA since 1950 has taken place whe re citize ns are banne d
from carrying guns. Despite strict gun regulations, Europe has
had 3 of the worst 6 school shootings. 12

POLICE ARM ED CITIZEN

794,300 80,000,000
total police officers 13 gun owning citizens 17

11% 2%
error rate 14 error rate 14

14.3 2.3
avg. deaths of a shooting avg. deaths of a shooting
rampage stopped by police 15 rampage stopped by a citizen 15

606 1,527
criminals killed each year 16 criminals killed each year 16

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In 1982, Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law re quiring heads Tweet

of households to ke e p at le ast one fire arm in the house.
The residential burglary rate subse que ntly droppe d 89%
in Kennesaw, compared to just 10.4% drop in Georgia as a

89% Drop
whole. 18

Today, the v iole nt crime rate in Ke nne saw is still 85% IN BURGLARIES AFTER
lowe r than Georgia's or the national average. 19 M ANDATORY GUN LAW

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Source s
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* Based upon Kleck & Gertz estimates of 2.5 million defensive g un uses per year (see source #2). A similar study in 1994 under President Clinton ( Source) found this number to be 1.5 million, which would result in g uns
being used over 47x more often to defend a life than to take one.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 436,000 crimes were committed with a firearm in 2008 ( Source). This would mean g uns are used 5.7 or 3.4 times (using Kleck or Clinton respectively) more often to
defend ag ainst a crime than to commit one.

** Comparing violent crime between two countries can sometimes be difficult as each nation defines it differently.

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13. Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.g ov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm
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19. City Rating : http://www.cityrating .com/crime-statistics/g eorg ia/kennesaw.html#.UO5soYnjkz4
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