Guns Kill 30,000 People Every Year
September 13, 2009
This completely wrong statistic is very well known and can be found on the web site of the Brady Campaign to Stop Handgun Violence. However, according to the Journal for Criminal Law and Criminology in 1995, an estimated 2,500,000 times each year people use firearms to defend themselves from crime each year! Giving the Brady’s the benifit of the doubt, that means the percentage of people killed by guns is only .012% of the people who use their firearms to protect their lives. I suppose you’re right Mrs. Brady, if we can only save one life, it’s worth it…you sicken me!
Now lets look at that 30,000 number. The National Center for Health Statistics says that 54% of these are suicides. Since Japan has a suicide rate more than 4 times ours (and cannot own guns) you have to throw those out of the statistic. Studies show that the absence of guns does not decrease suicide rates.
