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Today's podcast is great. I have been out of the country for a couple of weeks and I have a few things

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In an average year in the US there are 31,000 homicides, suicides or accidental shootings

resulting in around 15,000 deaths per year however

Private citizens use firearms for self-defense between 800,000 and 2.5 million times a year

The wide range is because so much defensive gun use goes unreported to the police

But if you look at those stats that means firearms are 80 times more likely to be used to protect in defense life

Versus taking life by the way that comes from the CDC

Of the defensive gun uses by private citizens in the US

Between 80,000 and 200,000 of those involved women using a firearm to defend herself from sexual assault

That's just from the Oso conservative journal of criminal law

The FBI crime data sets as the F the ATF estimates

There are currently 290 million firearms in private ownership in the US

That's excluding any kind of collector or replica firearms

That is up from 210 million guns in 1995 so that's a 29% increase in 24 years

Yet over that same time span violent crime in the US has fallen by 50%

And violent assaults involving a firearm have fallen by 55% again just from the FBI

The United States boasts the highest firearm ownership rate per capita

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