Interesting...

Facts:
Number of firearms in America: 228,000,000
Number of firearm owning households: At least 50,600,000
Projected firearm owning households in America: 60-85 million
Number of guns used in crimes: 450,000
Percentage of guns used in crimes: 0.09%

Over 50 million law-abiding, gun owning households committed NO crime today… but collectively, we stop 2.5 million crimes per year… 6,849 a day!

Fact: Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of the time is the gun ever actually fired.


Today, oddly enough, is National Ammo Day. Eric e-mailed me a link to the website and I read the above information. Very interesting....

What is National Ammo Day, you wonder? Here is what they say on the website:

November 19 is National Ammo Day. It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition.

You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person.

The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Make your support of the Second Amendment known--by voting with your dollars! There are an estimated 75 MILLION gun owners in the United States of America. If each gun owner or Second Amendment supporter buys 100 rounds of ammunition, that’s 7.5 BILLION rounds in the hands of law-abiding citizens!

The gun/ammunition manufacturers have been taking the brunt of all the frivolous lawsuits, trying to put these folks out of business. Well, not if we can help it! And we CAN help it by buying ammunition on November 19!

So there you go. Go out and buy a hundred rounds, everyone! Happy Ammo Day!