That's actually not true. In the recent meta study conducted by the CDC under orders from Obama in the aftermath of Sandy Hook they found that between 500,000 and 3 million Americans successfully defend their lives with a firearm each year and statistically having a firearm greatly increases the chances of surviving a violent encounter. A gun is first and foremost an effective deterrent. Only 8% of the time is a round even fired. The rest of the time the assailants approach the defender, the defender insinuates they have a firearm or draws and the assailants immediately retreat. In fact, this happens so often that the great bulk of DGU's go unreported because it's viewed as a non-event. I've heard those old claims from anti-gun lobby groups in the 90's but they never had any hard facts to back it up.

On top of that 2/3 of gun deaths are suicides. The rest of the actual legitimate gun deaths are homicides committed mostly by felons with records that obtained their firearms illegally and commit these killings during gang warfare due to the drug war. The average person is not running around shooting people with any alarming regularity. There are countless MILLIONS upon millions of gun owners in America. The amount of incidents and instances of negligence and accidents are infinitesimally small compared to the sheer amount of people who never cause any problems what so ever with their firearms.

There has been an excess of 200% increase nationwide of concealed carry permit holders in the last couple of years yet violent crime continues to drop like a rock and break record lows. There are more guns actively on the hips and in the hands of people than ever before and yet violent crime keeps dropping.

You are more likely to be struck by lightning than by anywhere near a mass shooting. More people are killed by hands, feet, blunt objects and knives than long guns of any type combined each year according to FBI statistics. This fear of being gunned down by a crazed lunatic with an AR-15 is way overblown.

Furthermore states like Vermont have almost no gun control laws yet have almost no violent crime what so ever. They even have constitutional carry which means you don't even need a permit to carry a firearm. There are towns deep in the heart of Texas with almost 100% gun ownership rate with knives, sharp sticks, explosives and maybe even artillery along with weapons of every other type imaginable in the hands of average citizens yet they have almost no violent crime.

There is absolutely NO credible evidence to suggest that more guns equates to more crime. Guns do not CAUSE crime. Crime is the result of our crumbling socioeconomic status. If we took the time, money and attention away from scapegoating guns and invested all that into infrastructure, education, universal health care, economic strengthening measures and ending the drug war we'd be in a hell of a better place than we currently are.

If you go back to my impoverished neighborhood in Detroit and ask people what would make their lives better NOBODY would say gun control. People need education, jobs and opportunities.

This hysteria over gun deaths is manufactured and overblown to clownish proportions and twisted for the sake of a political agenda and ratings on the news. Taking away or reducing my capability to defend myself is illogical, immoral and inhumane as there is nothing being done to improve the socioeconomic motivations behind violent behavior.

We don't live in a utopia and until then I will practice my constitutional right to bear arms and defend myself effectively against the real world threats that exist. This hippy dippy, kumbaya hand holding bullshit sounds nice but it's not applicable to the real world.

Also we sure as shit defended the colonies. We defended South Korea. We defended Paris and other cities in WWI. We defended various locations in WWII. Your bullshit just doesn't hold up. I love it when ignorant people talk. It provides so much entertainment.