To show your friends who think they are safe carrying a gun.

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22. This is a simpler way to illustrate how safe you are with a gun.

A 2010 survey of all uses of a gun that produced death (not counting police I think):

19,392 were gun suicides (68%)

8,275 were homicides (28%)

606 were "accidents" (2%)

230 were "justified homicides" (1%)

So if you buy a gun to protect yourself from somebody else with a gun trying to kill you, what are your odds of doing that? What are the odds that the gun you purchase will provide a means of bringing death to yourself or someone else?

SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. In the same way, it's pretty simple and straightforward to say that the more guns in circulation, the more deaths by guns. Simple math. The more cars on the highway, the more traffic accidents. The more arsenic sold, the more use of arsenic for whatever purpose.

This is one reason human beings were given a brain by an all-wise Creator. We were meant to use it.