To a N. Wildwood spouter on owners protecting their families: The VPC reports an annual average of 67,740 incidents of self-protection over a five-year period, involving a firearm by crime victims. The CDC reports that defensive gun use by victims occurs as frequently as offensive use by criminals. In addition, 61 percent of firearm deaths are from suicide, not homicide, which skews the statistics to favor the liberal agenda. This information is all verifiable online, but you have to make the effort to look for it. Most news sources are left-wing and biased, and ignore stories on defensive gun use.