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Are you aware, NoGun, that firearms restrictions were an important tool of Jim Crow? Any person is more easily oppressed when they cannot effectively defend themselves, whether the oppressor is a government, a mob, a street gang, or an individual of bad intentions.
Firearms are used to take the life of another between 12 and 13 thousand times a year in the US. The most avid gun control groups claim that defensive uses of firearms occur "only" around 65 thousand times a year, around 5 times as often as they are used for a homicide. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that householders use a firearm to defend against an identified home intruder - a rather narrow definition of self defense - around a half a million times a year, or 40 times as often as they are used for a homicide. Papers published in peer-reviewed journals of criminology estimate defensive uses of firearms to number as high as 2 to 2.5 million a year, or 200 times as common as firearms-related homicides.
In answer to your question, "Why do you need a gun?" I have to answer, "Why should I, or any person willing to responsibly own and use firearms, give up such an effective means of defending myself and my family?"
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