Since 1991, the number of privately owned firearms in the U.S. has increased by about 50 million, the number of right-to-carry states has increased from 15 to 37, and violent crime has decreased every year.
Every year, people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using a firearm defensively stated that they “almost certainly” saved their lives by doing so.
Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns to defend themselves, 92% merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.
For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives are saved through defensive use.
In 1982, Kennesaw, GA passed a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in the house. The residential burglary rate dropped 89% the following year.Read More
After the implementation of Canada’s 1977 gun controls prohibiting handgun possession for protection, the “breaking and entering” crime rate rose 25%, surpassing the American rate.
In 1966, the city of Orlando responded to a wave of sexual assaults by offering firearms training classes to women. Rapes dropped by nearly 90% the following year.
Gun ownership is slowing down property crime (especially burglaries). The chart shows the legal handgun supply in America (mainly in civilian hands) to the property crime rate.
Washington D.C. has essentially banned gun ownership since 1976 and has a murder rate of 56.9 per 100,000. Across the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun ownership is less restricted. There, the murder rate is just 1.6 per 100,000, less than three percent of the Washington, D.C. rate.
Less than 8% of the time does a citizen wound his or her attacker, and in less than one in a thousand instances is the attacker killed.
Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the gun ever actually fired.
Two-thirds of the people who die each year from gunfire are criminals being shot by other criminals.
Even banning guns does not slow down criminals. In the U.K., where private ownership of firearms is practically forbidden, criminals have and use guns regularly, and even build their own. One enterprising fellow converted 170 starter pistols to functioning firearms and sold them to gangs. Hundreds of such underground gun factories have been established, contributing to a 35% jump in gun violence.
States that adopted nondiscretionary concealed-handgun laws saw murders decreased by at least 8%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robberies by 3%. The murder rates of women permit-holders fell by as much as five times the drop of their male counterparts.
The first gold medal awarded at the Summer Olympics goes to the winner of a shooting competition.
Eight U.S. Presidents have been NRA members. They are Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
Above Information Courtesy of Handgun Defense
Tangu mwaka 1991 idadi ya silaha za kibinafsi nchini Marekani imeongezeka kwa karibu milioni 50, idadi ya majimbo yenye haki ya kubeba silaha imeongezeka kutoka 15 hadi 37, na uhalifu wa kigaidi umepungua kila mwaka. Kila mwaka, watu nchini Marekani hutumia bunduki kujilinda dhidi ya wahalifu takriban mara 2,500,000 - zaidi ya watu 6,500 kwa siku, au mara moja kila sekunde 13. Katika visa hivi, 15.6% ya watu wanaotumia silaha ya moto kwa kujilinda walisema kwamba "karibu hakika" waliokoa maisha yao kwa kufanya hivyo. Katika mara 2,500,000 ambapo raia hutumia bunduki kujilinda, 92% hutumia bunduki au risasi ya onyo kuogopesha washambuliaji. Kwa kila kifo cha ajali, kujiua, au mauaji na silaha, maisha ya watu kumi huokolewa kupitia matumizi ya kujilinda. Mwaka 1982 serikali ya Marekani ilipitisha sheria iliyoweka sheria ya kuwa na silaha moja tu ya risasi nyumbani. "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""kiwango cha wizi wa makazi kilipungua kwa 89% mwaka uliofuata"" na ""kiwango cha uhalifu wa kuvunja na kuingia kiliongezeka kwa 25% baada ya utekelezaji wa udhibiti wa bunduki wa Canada wa 1977 unaopiga marufuku umiliki wa bunduki kwa ulinzi.""" Mwaka 1966, jimbo la Orlando lilipokabiliwa na wimbi la unyanyasaji wa kingono, lilianzisha mafunzo ya kutumia silaha za moto kwa wanawake. Mauaji ya kikatili yalipungua kwa asilimia 90 mwaka uliofuata. Umiliki wa bunduki unapunguza uhalifu wa mali (hasa wizi). Chati inaonyesha usambazaji wa silaha halali nchini Marekani (hasa katika mikono ya raia) kwa kiwango cha uhalifu wa mali. Washington D.C. imepiga marufuku umiliki wa bunduki tangu mwaka 1976 na ina kiwango cha mauaji cha 56.9 kwa kila 100,000 watu. Ng'ambo ya mto huko Arlington, Virginia, umiliki wa bunduki hauzuiwi sana. Kiwango cha mauaji huko ni 1.6 tu kwa kila 100,000, chini ya asilimia 3 ya kiwango cha Washington, D.C. Katika asilimia 8 tu ya visa, raia humjeruhi mshambuliaji wake, na katika asilimia 1 tu ya visa, mshambuliaji huuawa. Kila siku, mauaji ya kikatili 550, mauaji ya kikatili 1,100, na uhalifu mwingine 5,200 wa kikatili huzuia kwa kuonyesha tu bunduki. Katika chini ya 0.9% ya kesi hizi, bunduki hiyo ilitumiwa. Thuluthi mbili ya watu wanaokufa kila mwaka kutokana na risasi ni wahalifu wanaopigwa risasi na wahalifu wengine. Hata kupiga marufuku bunduki hakuzuii wahalifu. Katika nchi za Ulaya, ambapo umiliki wa silaha ni marufuku, wahalifu wana silaha zao na hata wanazizalisha. Mmoja wa waanzilishi wa silaha hizo alibadilisha bunduki 170 na kuziuza kwa magenge. "Kuna ""kumi na mia"" ya viwanda vya silaha vya chini ya ardhi, na hivyo kuongeza kwa asilimia 35 idadi ya watu wanaotumia silaha." Katika nchi zilizopitisha sheria za kuhifadhi silaha za mkononi, mauaji yamepungua kwa asilimia 8 na mauaji ya kikatili kwa asilimia 5 na mauaji ya kikatili kwa asilimia 7 na wizi kwa asilimia 3. Kiwango cha mauaji ya wanawake wenye vibali vya mauaji kilipungua mara tano kuliko cha wanaume. Medali ya kwanza ya dhahabu inayotolewa katika Michezo ya Olimpiki ya Majira ya joto hupelekwa kwa mshindi wa mashindano ya risasi. Marais wanane wa Marekani wamekuwa wanachama wa NRA. "Watu hao ni pamoja na Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan na George W. Bush.""" Taarifa ya Juu Kwa Heshima ya Ulinzi wa Bunduki