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Originally Posted by Haggar
What is the basis for that statement? How many times has that happened? Many? - it happens occasionally I suppose but I can't really recall reading about it more than a few times in my lifetime.
I did read recently about the youth who was shot because he knocked on the wrong door.
We're thought about having a gun in the house. However don't really seeing us being the winner in a shoot-out.
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The best estimates are that guns are used to deter or thwart crime between 500,000 and 2.8 million times per year, but the more likely answer is probably somewhere in the middle. A 2021 survey2 estimated that guns are used 1.67 million times per year in self defense in the United States.
Now if you decide not to have a gun in your home to defend your loved ones and self, that is fine. Your choice. I would propose your chances of defending yourselves from a violent home invasion are better with a gun then without, but no one should tell you what is right for you. That would be wrong.