Updated May 9, 2022 Heritage.org:
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. There’s good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets. "
There's plenty of research done on bad and good uses of guns in America, but the anti-gun folks (scared of the big bad guns) focus on the school shootings more than anything else, such as gang/drug shootings for example. Maybe they are just racist?
Off subject but sort of related, America maintains an arsenal of nuclear weapons but enjoys telling other countries that they must either NOT have them or must limit the size and quantity of them. You can make of that statement what you wish. Just a thought.
Now, how many school shootings do you think you could eliminate IF all public schools had ten foot fences around them with an armed security checking IDs at the gate? Perhaps even using a metal detector? Well, you do not hear of many (if any) mass shootings within the inner cities that have security fences to keep the drug pushers out. Some physical security is not that expensive. But, why not spend some money on physical security? Shoot, some states have "Education" lotteries where the revenues from the State Lottery goes to building and maintaining public schools.
The type of guns used in shootings does not matter if the perp is deterred by making it impossible or difficult to get to the target. Bad guys prefer soft targets.
You can't always predict when a person is going to lose their mind and become violent. You cannot take away folks rights based on theory or the acts of a minority group of mental cases. If an average of a million folks in our country are saved every year by guns, then why would you think that by taking away the "good guy's" gun it would make good people safer?
It ain't hard folks. A tall fence and a guard or two and maybe even some security cameras really won't break the budget. But, it could save some children's lives while you all figure out how to do the "Minority Report" movie idea of predicting when a crime is going to be committed and who is going to do it, so you can violate someone's rights and arrest them before they break the law.
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