It is claimed in a letter to the editor of the Virginian Pilot on 4/10/09 that there are 200 million "legally owned handguns" in this country and that 50 % of households have a gun. It is also estimated that "2.5 million-3 million" defensive uses of legally owned firearms in the US every year". This, of course, is the reason to allow more guns so that people can defend themselves from madmen who kill for no reason. It seems to this writer that if the actual use of guns to fend off attackers were known the figure would be more definate, rather than one with a half million variable. I would like to know the basis for this claim by the writer from Chesapeake, Virginia.
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