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It’s good to see others with large venues getting onboard with the knowledge that gun use for self defense strongly outweighs their use by criminals.<\/p>\n

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These 11 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Undermine Push for More Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n

March is Women\u2019s History Month, yet Congress appears ready to celebrate in the worst way possible by creating more barriers for women who seek to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

While COVID-19-related bills have taken up much of the national spotlight, several gun control bills are primed for passage this week in the House. This is hardly surprising, given that just last month, President Joe Biden\u00a0called on Congress<\/a>\u00a0to enact a plethora of new federal gun legislation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, however,\u00a0none of these proposals<\/a>\u00a0is meaningfully directed at the root causes of gun violence. Many gun control advocates have fooled themselves\u2014and far too many others\u2014into believing that we create safer communities by placing increasingly burdensome restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n

The reality, however, is that firearms are used far more often for lawful purposes than they are used to commit acts of criminal violence.<\/p>\n

Almost every major study on the issue found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between\u00a0500,000 and 3 million times<\/a>\u00a0a year, according to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We have\u00a0good reason to believe<\/a>\u00a0that many of these defensive gun uses aren\u2019t reported to police, much less make the local or national news.<\/p>\n

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an 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 accounts from 2019 and 2020\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/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 by using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive\u00a0Defensive Gun Use Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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