Myth: Only police should have guns

Mar 29th, 2009

Fact: “…most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.”¹

Fact: 11% of police shootings kill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person.²

Fact: Police have trouble keeping their own guns. Hundreds of firearms are missing from the FBI and 449 of them have been involved in crimes.³

Fact: People who saw the helplessness of the L.A. Police Department during the 1992 King
Riots or the looting and violence in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina know that citizens need guns to defend themselves

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

Wright and Rossi, “”Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms”, 1986 ↩
Cramer C and Kopel D. “Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws.” Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994 ↩
ABC News, July 17, 2001 ↩

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