Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day.1 Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Fact: It seems to be slowing down property crime (especially burglaries). The chart shows the legal handgun supply in America (mainly in civilian hands) to the property crime rate.2
Fact: Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the gun ever actually fired.3
This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info
on Mar 11th, 2010 at 9:11 am
This graph proves nothing. What evidence is there to prove the two are linked? You might as well say property crime has fallen as the sale of Twinkies has risen.