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Gun Control Activists Admit They Overreacted to This Concealed Carry Case<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun control advocates have spent the past two years losing their minds over the Supreme Court ruling in\u00a0New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/a>, a case that affirmed citizens\u2019 right to publicly carry a firearm for self-defense.<\/p>\n

One of the commonly repeated criticisms of Bruen has been that the high court\u2019s ruling is dangerous because allowing ordinary peaceable citizens to carry concealed handguns in public would increase rates of gun violence.<\/p>\n

In a strange twist of events, some of those same gun control advocates now admit\u2014unintentionally and with no sense of irony\u2014that violent crime rates are actually on the decline in those restrictive gun control states forced by Bruen to recognize the\u00a0right to bear arms<\/a>\u00a0in public.<\/p>\n

Giffords, a prominent gun control advocacy organization, previously condemned the Bruen decision as \u201cextremist,\u201d arguing that it would \u201cdrastically affect the safety of a large swath of the U.S. population<\/a>\u201d by \u201cescalating gun violence, leading ever more people to feel unsafe in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years later, while retweeting an article that criticizes conservatives for asserting that President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0failed border policies<\/a>\u00a0are partially responsible for an increase in crime rates (even though significant evidence suggests\u00a0that this claim is false<\/a>), Giffords now highlights a claim that crime rates are actually falling.<\/p>\n

Gun control advocates can\u2019t seem to get their story straight. Crime rates often appear to increase or decrease depending on whichever is most useful to the gun control narrative.<\/p>\n

The truth is that lawful gun owners\u2014and\u00a0concealed carry permit holders<\/a>, in particular\u2014have never been the driving force behind criminal gun violence. At the same time, the right to keep and bear arms in self-defense offers ordinary Americans significant protection against threats to life, liberty, and property.<\/p>\n

Almost every major study has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between\u00a0500,000 and 3 million<\/a>\u00a0times annually, according to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the issue concluded that\u00a0roughly 1.6 million defensive gun uses<\/a>\u00a0occur in the United States every year.<\/p>\n

For this reason, The Daily Signal publishes a monthly article highlighting some of the previous month\u2019s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed\u2014or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0from past years)<\/p>\n

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in February. You may explore more using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive\u00a0Defensive Gun Use Database<\/a>. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)<\/p>\n