Did you know?
Suicide is five times more likely in a home with a
gun.
Somewhere between 50 and 60 percent of guns used in crimes come
from states with less strict gun laws.
15 of the 25 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took
place in the United States.
A national survey of inmates
found that nearly 80% of those who used a hand gun in crime acquired it from an
unlicensed secondary-market seller.
Nearly 3,000 kids every year will die from gun murder, suicide, accidental, death, or
police intervention
As of 2010, federal law does not prohibit members of terrorist
organizations from purchasing or possessing firearms or
explosives.
Only nine states have trigger-lock laws, where gun sellers are
required to sell integrated or internal trigger locks with
handguns.
Between 50 to 60 percent of guns at least that turn up on our
streets used in crimes are trafficked in from the other states with weaker gun
laws.
For more than 200 years people have been disagreed on how they should interpret the
the second amendment which states,
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.”
Based on production data from firearm manufacturers, there are
roughly 300 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010.
Of these, about 100 million are handguns. This is almost one firearm for every
man, woman, and child in the United States.
In the United States, there were 32,163 deaths resulting from firearms
in 2011.
In the United States, the reported, or estimated annual number of non-fatal
firearm injuries in 2011 was 73, 883.
“Corrupt federally licensed gun dealers:
Federally licensed gun dealers send more guns to the criminal market than any
other single source. Nearly 60% of the guns used in crime are traced back to a
small number—just 1.2%—of crooked gun dealers. Corrupt dealers frequently have
high numbers of missing guns, in many cases because they’re selling guns “off
the books” to private sellers and criminals. In 2005, the ATF examined 3,083
gun dealers and found 12,274 “missing” firearms”.
The U.S.A ranks 26th in the world according to homicide by gun rate per
100,000 people.