USA Number 1 in Gun Ownership

The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people. The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000. Douc's SHOOT N SPORTS www.dougsgunstore.com Overall, guns in the United Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives. to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.