2019 crime statistics for the U.S.: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-crime-statistics https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-rel

2019 crime statistics for the U.S.: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-crime-statistics https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/fbi-r... Approximately 10k homicides with firearms in 2019: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... In 2019, there were 28 live shooter incidents with 12 meeting the definition of “mass shooting.” In total, active shooters claimed 247 lives that year: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents-in-the-us-2019-042820.pdf/view https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents... Compare that with this report from the Obama administration: http://nap.edu/18319 http://nap.edu/18319 Annually, firearms in America are used in self defense between 500k and 3M times (real page 26, labeled as 15). Taking these numbers as true, the rate firearms are used in self defense vs. homicide is between 50x and 300x. Americans are substantially more likely to defend themselves with a firearm than to be unlawfully killed by one. They are substantially more likely to defend themselves with a firearm than to be killed in a mass shooting.