As summarized by legal scholar Don Kates in The American Spectator:
- Over the 30-year period from 1974 to 2003, guns in circulation doubled.
- Over the same 30-year period from 1974 to 2003, murder rates declined by a third.
- On a state-by-state basis, a 1% increase in gun ownership correlates with a 4.1% lower rate of violent crime.
- Estimates of defensive gun use range from 1.3 million to 2.5 million times per year.
- Usually the defensive gun use is merely brandishing the gun, not firing it.
- Defensive uses occur about 3-to-5 times as often as violent gun crimes.
- Armed victims who resist gun criminals get injured less frequently than unarmed victims who submit.
- In more than 8 out of 10 cases where the victim pulls a gun, the criminal turns and flees, even if he’s armed.
- In 2004, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed 253 journal articles, 99 books, and 43 government publications evaluating 80 gun-control measures. The researchers could not identify a single gun-control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide, or accidents.
- In 2003 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on an independent evaluation of firearms and ammunition bans, restrictions on acquisition, waiting periods, registration, licensing, child access prevention laws, and zero tolerance laws, with the conclusion being that none of the gun control laws had a meaningful impact on gun violence.
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