There are far more defensive gun uses than murders in U.S.

Real Clear Investigations reports, "These are just a few of the nearly 1,000 instances reported by the media so far this year in which gun owners have stopped mass shootings and other murderous acts, saving countless lives. And crime experts say such high-profile cases represent only a small fraction of the instances in which guns are used defensively...

There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here's Why You Rarely Hear of Them. While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know firearms also save them. An in-depth disc of the media's biashttps://t.co/1LqQMe7pOr#2A #DGU

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Americans who look only at the daily headlines would be surprised to learn that, according to academic estimates, defensive gun uses — including instances when guns are simply shown to deter a crime — are four to five times more common than gun crimes, and far more frequent than the fewer than 20,000 murders each year, with or without a gun. But even when they prevent mass public shootings, defensive uses rarely get national news coverage."

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