Originally Posted by Toxic

Gun facts:
Guns are used nearly 2.5 millioin times a year for self-defense.
In those self-defense situations the citizen will only brandish the firearm instead of firing.
In less that 8% of those attacks will the citizen be wound the attacker.
Nearly 2 million of those cases involve handguns.
Almost 10% of those cases involve women defending themselves from sexual abuse or attack.
Guns are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of law abiding citizens than to take a life.
In an estimated 300 million U.S. population, an average of 1 out of 105 people that you know will use a gun in self-defense every year.
Burglars are 3 1/2 more likely to enter a home in a gun control country like England than in the U.S.
U.S. citizens shoot twice as many criminals each year than the police do.

D.C. ,with it's hyper-restrictive gun control laws, has well over twice the violent crime of fairfax va, which has basically no gun control laws, yet over twice the population of D.C.

Right after Australia introduced gun control laws crime went up dramatically.