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Friday, January 15, 2016

EAGLE RISING: In Just One Year Law Abiding Gun Owners Stopped HUNDREDS of Criminals!

By Onan Coca / 14 January 2016

The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) did something great for our nation recently. With all of the hoopla and debate about gun control and violent crime, the DCNF decided that they would do a bit of research to try to better understand the impact of the 2^nd Amendment on American life. To that end, the DCNF analyzed almost 200 random incidents where a gun owner used their firearm to defend themselves (and others) from violence, then they put that data into an interactive graphic that to allow everyone to search it using various criteria.

Interestingly, the DCNF analysis found that while middle-aged men are more likely to use a gun for self-defense than others, firearm users cut across every age, gender and socioeconomic subset imaginable. The one thing that remained constant was the level of success that law-abiding gun owners had at stopping crime.