Just the facts
-Approximately 270 million civilian owned guns in the united states.
-200,000 times a year that women used guns to defend themselves against sexual abuse.
-⅗ felons said that they will not mess with an armed victim.
-USA ranks number 1 in highest gun ownership rate per 100 residents with 88.8, ranks 103 in highest intentional homicide rate per 100,000 residents with 4.3
-Possession of handguns is illegal in the UK, 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK vs 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the USA.
-In the decade following the Labor Party’s election and banning of handguns in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77% to 1.2 million in 2007 or more than 2 attacks every minute.
-According to the FBI states that passed concealed carry laws reduced murder rates by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robberies by 3%.
-Since 1982, there has been an 89% drop in burglaries in the city of Kennesaw, Georgia. This drop was due to a law that was passed saying that all heads of the household in the city are required to keep at least one firearm in the household. The burglary rate dropped 89% in Kennesaw compared to 10.9% in Georgia as a whole.
-Today in Kennesaw, the crime rate is still 85% lower than Georgia or the national average.
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-200,000 times a year that women used guns to defend themselves against sexual abuse.
-⅗ felons said that they will not mess with an armed victim.
-USA ranks number 1 in highest gun ownership rate per 100 residents with 88.8, ranks 103 in highest intentional homicide rate per 100,000 residents with 4.3
-Possession of handguns is illegal in the UK, 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK vs 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the USA.
-In the decade following the Labor Party’s election and banning of handguns in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77% to 1.2 million in 2007 or more than 2 attacks every minute.
-According to the FBI states that passed concealed carry laws reduced murder rates by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robberies by 3%.
-Since 1982, there has been an 89% drop in burglaries in the city of Kennesaw, Georgia. This drop was due to a law that was passed saying that all heads of the household in the city are required to keep at least one firearm in the household. The burglary rate dropped 89% in Kennesaw compared to 10.9% in Georgia as a whole.
-Today in Kennesaw, the crime rate is still 85% lower than Georgia or the national average.
For more information visit, americangunfacts.com/