According to the FBI, between 1.6 to 3%
According to Dr. Gary Kleck, criminologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee and author of "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America," a book used by many in the gun debate, 800,000-2,500,000 crimes are stopped by guns each year. The numbers are from different studies.
Interesting Statistics:
There were over 19,000 deaths by accidental drug overdose in 2004. The majority of these deaths were from prescription drugs, not illegal drugs. Banning prescription drugs makes as much sense as banning guns.
Regarding accidental shooting deaths per year, that number is in the 14,000-17,000 range. Over 100,000,000 guns are owned in America.
TWO and a HALF MILLION violent criminals are are stopped each year by armed citizens. Of the 2,500,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% (192,500) are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse. (Source: Dr Gary Kleck of Florida State University Department of Criminology)
Woman armed with a gun stopped 97% of all rapes attempts.
78% of unarmed women COULD NOT stop a rape attempt
(Source: Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities , U.S. Department of Justice)
The rate of defensive gun use is six times that of criminal gun use. (Source: Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws, Clayton Cramer, David Kopel, Independence Institute Issue Paper.)
For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives are saved
through defensive use. (Source: National Crime Victimization Survey,)
The last time I check, it was around 0.1%. Crimes committed with LEGALLY owned guns are extremely low.
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Roughly 1.4 million LEGAL gun owners.
Gun owners aren't "registered" like cars. One estimate is that there are @ 4 million or so gun owners.
no records. Sorry
A couple of million
In the US, roughly 1/3 of the households are gun owners.
There are no records. Texas does not require permits to own a gun.
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No way to answer, since we do not know exactly how many gun owners (male and femal) there are. FWIW, both of my daughters, one granddaughter, and my stepmother own guns.
No. There is no registration of gun owners
There are no definitive studies that show clear trends. The top three states for violent crimes, Tennessee, Nevada, and Alaska have fairly liberal gun laws and high gun ownerships, yet according to state statistics the victims are often not gun owners.
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