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Firearms; Vital Tools for Self Defense or Deadly Killers?
There are presently in excess of 200 million guns in the United States,
according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Each year this number
grows by 4 to 5 million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more
guns.1 There is a firearm on the premises of more than half the households in
America. Most of them keep guns for prote ....
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.... were afraid the victim was armed. Fifty - seven percent of
them were scared off by an armed victim who either brandished a gun or actually
fired it.3 This alone shows that crime would drop if more citizens owned,
carried and knew how to use guns.
One such case involved eleven - year old Jason Green of Houston, Texas.
Home alone one night, he heard noises in the house. Arming himself with his
father's shotgun he investigated and caught a burglar in th ....
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