PRO GUN CONTROL
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens
More gun control would reduce gun deaths
- 464,033 total deaths caused by gun from 1999-2013 (procon.org)
- 12th leading cause of all deaths (procon.org)
- American children under 15 are nine times more likely to die of gun accidents than children in other advanced countries (procon.org)
- We lose 32,000 Americans every year to gun violence every year (Ladd Everitt)
- In the US guns are used for homicides more than any other country (CNN)
- US gun violence kills more than terrorism (CNN)
Protect women from domestic abusers and stalkers
- Five women are murdered per day in America with guns (procon.org)
- Risk of murder increases 500% if gun is accessible in domestic dispute (procon.org)
- Between 2001-2012, 6,410 women were killed with a gun by intimate partner (procon.org)
- American women are 11.4 times more likely to be gun homicide victims (procon.org)
- Over past 25 years, more intimate partner homicides in the U.S. have been committed with guns than all other weapons combined (everytownresearch.org)
- In 35 states, state law does not prohibit all people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violent crimes/restraining orders from buying or using guns (everytownresearch.org)
Guns are rarely used in self-defense
- One out of three guns are not used millions of time each year in self defense (Hemenway)
- Only 258 homicides in 2012 were justifiable out of 8,342 homicides. (Huffington Post)
- In 13 states there were no justifiable homicides in 2012 (Violence Policy Center)
- Between 2007 and 2011, only 103,000 protected themselves with a threat of use or use of firearms out of 84,495,500 (procon.org)
- For every criminal killed in self-defense, 34 innocent people die (The Washington Post)
- For every 1 justifiable gun homicide in 2012, there were 34 criminal gum homicides, 78 gun suicides, and 2 accidental gun deaths (The Washington Post)