Opinion
By Dan Wos
Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- We often find ourselves arguing statistics with anti-gun people. Let’s put the conversation into perspective. I will give you some statistics and I’ll also expose the anti-gun left’s real motives for gun control. First of all, don’t you think that if someone really wanted to save lives, they would focus their attention on an area where the most lives are lost? If you’ll notice, Anti-Gunners miss that piece of logic and gravitate toward any justification for gun control laws regardless of its inability to save lives.
The gun grabbers like to use the number of 30,000 to 40,000 gun-related deaths per year but if we take out suicides, which are 60% of those deaths and we take out law enforcement-related deaths, we’re left with about 14,880 gun-related homicides. Let me add something here. After seeing the results of Australia’s gun ban, we know that suicides do not go down in the absence of guns. People find other means; just in case there are some Anti-Gunners out there still trying to blame suicides on guns.
Here’s where it gets interesting.
The majority of those gun-related homicides are gang-related. So, let’s say we didn’t have the gang problem we have in this country. If we take out gang/gun murders the number of gun-related homicides shrinks to 2,976 per year in America. here’s another interesting fact that the anti-gun left doesn’t want you to know. The majority of gang-related violence occurs in Democrat-run cities across this country, which by the way are highly gun restricted and often allow violent Illegals safe harbor. Which means, the good people living within those cities are denied their right to protect themselves against the human violence that Democrats encourage with their bad policies. Now let’s compare 2,976 gun-related homicides to some other things that the anti-gun left could be working on if they really wanted to save lives.
- 2,976 gun-related homicides, consisting of many different causes. None of which are caused by “the gun.”
- 11,000 lives lost per year in America to drunk driving accidents.
- 47,000 lives lost per year in America due to suicide, (bipolar disorder and schizophrenia being two of the leading causes of suicide.) Not guns. Remember, take away the guns and that number doesn’t change.
- 330,000 lives are taken per year in America by people committing abortion. One of the biggest causes of preventable deaths in America is abortion. Didn’t the gun-grabbers say they wanted to save lives?
Now let me give you a piece of information that the anti-self-defense crowd doesn’t want you to know. How many lives do you think are saved every year because of guns?
- 2,500,000 lives are potentially saved every year in America because of guns. These are called Defensive Gun Uses (DGU’s). Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean good guys killing bad guys. This most often means just the mere presence of a gun deters a bad guy. 46% of those lives saved are women. This is from a study that was done by Gary Kleck, a Florida criminologist and backed by data from the CDC.
*[Data collected from Pew Research Center, FBI Statistics, Armed Resistance to Crime Report (Kleck/Gertz), Center for Medical Progress, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.]
Why do you think the gun grabbers never share this information? Some would argue that they don’t really care about saving lives as much as they care about disarming their fellow citizens and preventing them from independently protecting themselves and their families.
Gun control is a top-down method that puts the government in charge of the lives and safety of people under the guise of “public safety.” It’s the first step in stealing the freedom our founders fought for. The anti-gun left has already decided that they are willing to give up their freedom to government. The problem is, they can’t have their government-controlled Utopian society unless everyone gets on board. Real Americans are clearly not getting on board. In fact, just the opposite is true. People across the country are fighting back as the left-wing ideology tries desperately to embed itself into traditional America. Gun control is a way of forcing you into dependence whether you like it or not.
We’re never going to cure the evil in the hearts of killers but thanks to our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of firearms, we can stop them.
So, to the gun grabbers, do you really want to save lives? Then get to work on the real causes of human-violence and help us restore our gun rights so good people can protect themselves. Help us save lives, rather than ending them before they get a chance to take their first breath.
The 2nd Amendment is not a privilege. It’s your right.
Dan Wos
Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
www.goodgunbadguy.net
About Dan Wos, Author – Good Gun Bad Guy
Dan Wos is an American entrepreneur, author, musician, and NRA member. He is the founder and President of House Detective Inc., a home inspection and appraisal company serving many markets across the United States. He is also an active real estate investor.
another issue that takes 10’s of thousand of lives in America is drug overdoses which generally is brought in by and distributed by gangs. also, more people die from automobile accidents and medical errors than firearms each year. leftists never want to debate the issue of gun control. they will deny the statistics/data or argue that they are not true. they always use children as pawns in their attempts to defend their position but as said it is rarely true. they want to take away a persons civil rights and ability to protect and defend themselves while letting millions of… Read more »
Murder with guns amounts to about 4.6 per 100,000, death from drug overdose is 21.7 per 100,000 or nearly five times as many. And that is only overdose deaths, many other deaths are drug related, including many, perhaps most of those firearm deaths. If the goal is to save lives the effort would be much better directed at opioid drug addiction intervention.
I have been studying various crime phenomenon my entire adult life and worked abroad dealing with high crimes and I have stopped entertaining the Democrats delusional pre don crime fighting fantasies. They are orchestrating a system that not only violates Article VI within the US Constitution, but takes citizens ability to protect themselves from violent criminals. This unconstitutional power grab must not be allowed to pass. It will be the beginning of the end of what we perceive as a free nation. The DNC targets unpreventable phenomenon and claims to solve them with anecdotal evidence and a justification to abuse… Read more »
Since I E.T.S.”s out of the Army, I have been involved in 5 instances where there were or there was potential for lives being lost. If I pulled myself out of the numbers, there are 16 people who either lived, survived or died in total. I have family members who would not be alive today if I had not been armed. I have family members who would have been kidnaped had I not been armed. My daughter is one of them and it happened to her 2X. The chances of getting my little girl back alive or alive in one… Read more »
Because the communist democrat shave been employing the Hegelian Dialectic for over 65 years, now.
You are 100% correct at how the communist democrats despise the American people.
The communist democrats would slaughter every child in the United States if they were sure THAT would allow them to collect all guns and implement their totalitarian government.
DEMOCRATS protect the robbing, raping and drunk-driving illegal alien invaders.
DEMOCRATS protect MS-13, whose members must murder and rape to become a member.
Democrats despise the United States, the Constitution and the American people.
Democrats, during the Senate Impeachment Trial, stated several times that the American people were the enemy.