{"id":92761,"date":"2023-05-13T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92761"},"modified":"2023-05-13T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T15:45:06","slug":"92761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92761","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Miss Swearer hit a line drive out of the park again<\/p>\n

11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners \u2018Get It Right\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Often lost in conversations about gun violence is the reality of who is responsible for the bulk of that violence.\u00a0Most gun crimes aren\u2019t committed by lawful gun owners but by\u00a0a small subset of repeat violent offenders<\/a>\u00a0who already are prohibited from legally possessing firearms.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the vast majority of the nation\u2019s millions of lawful gun owners\u00a0will never use their firearms<\/a>\u00a0to harm themselves or others (excluding, of course, actions taken in lawful self-defense).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, sometimes people make questionable\u2014or even downright abhorrent\u2014decisions with their lawfully owned firearms. This was quite apparent in recent weeks as\u00a0several gun owners<\/a>\u00a0made national headlines for all the wrong reasons, recklessly resorting to the use of lethal force when it likely wasn\u2019t warranted.<\/p>\n

Although these individuals rightly should have their actions scrutinized, the reality is that Americans with legally possessed guns are far more likely to \u201cget it right\u201d than they are to \u201cget it wrong.\u201d<\/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, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged. 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\u00a0<\/a>from past months and years. You also may follow\u00a0@DailyDGU<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter for daily highlights of recent defensive gun uses.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in April. You may explore more using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive\u00a0Defensive Gun Use Database<\/a>.\u00a0(The Daily Signal is Heritage\u2019s multimedia news organization.)<\/p>\n