Arguing With an Ignorant Gun-Grabber? Here Are Five Basic Facts to Help

Are you a responsible gun owner who appreciates your Second Amendment rights? Have you recently been accused of supporting mass murder by a Twitter troll who thinks semi-automatic weapons can shoot 4,671 rounds in half a second? Are you tired of being called Hitler at family reunions because you’re a member of the NRA?

While arguably very little can dissuade the willfully ignorant, here are five very basic, indisputable facts about guns and public safety that might help you out.

1. About 0.003 percent of all U.S. guns are used in homicides each year.

2. You’re much more likely to fall to your death than get killed by gunfire.

3. While gun ownership has doubled, gun homicides have dropped by half.

4. “Big scary guns” are used to kill people far less than ordinary handguns.

5. Fully automatic weapons have been illegal to the general public since 1986.

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