Guns are used millions of times every year by law-abiding citizens in the US to prevent crime, right?

Wrong!

The above list of sources proves the following in regard to gun threats and self-defense gun use:

• Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
• Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
• Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
• Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
• Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
• Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
• Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
• Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions