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These 12 Incidents of Defensive Gun Use Prove Armed Civilians Make Situations Safer<\/a><\/p>\n

I testified earlier this month at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Chicago on underlying causes of the spikes in gun violence in that city and around the country.<\/p>\n

Although Sen. Dick Durbin\u2019s\u00a0interruptions of my opening statement<\/a>\u00a0stole the show in many respects, it shouldn\u2019t be overlooked that the Illinois Democrat also solicited disparaging remarks on the right to keep and bear arms from another witness\u2014Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown.<\/p>\n

In direct response to one of Durbin\u2019s questions, Brown remarked that armed civilians make police officers\u2019 jobs more difficult, and that he never has seen a lawfully armed civilian make a situation safer.<\/p>\n

This was certainly disappointing and should not take away from Brown\u2019s important points with respect to underlying\u00a0problems\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0of prosecutorial leniency and anti-police sentiment that devastates police morale.<\/p>\n

But Brown also is quite mistaken about the reality of defensive uses of firearms. Americans\u2014including those residing in Chicago\u2014routinely use their guns to defend themselves and others from crime, rendering themselves and their communities safer from violence.<\/p>\n

Almost every major study on the issue 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.<\/p>\n

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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 other accounts\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0from 2019, 2020, and so far this year.)<\/p>\n

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in November. You may explore more by 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