According to The Brady Campaign, in 1998, there were 30,708 deaths in the United States from guns. That includes homicide, accidents, and suicide. It's a commonly held statistic that there are somewhere over 200 million privately-owned firearms in the United States. Calculating that out as a percentage, this means that only about 0.015354% of guns are used in crime. That is, of course, assuming that every crime is committed with a new gun. Yet the left continually bleats on about how the way to eradicate gun violence is to disarm people like me: law-abiding, upstanding citizens who've never pulled a trigger …
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