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(4,462 posts)many tens of millions more with guns legally at home, and numerous instances of defensive gun use according to the CDC under President Obama,
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year
in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.
Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence:
http://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1#ix
Nevertheless, and despite the claims of some gun controllers that liberalized gun laws will result in blood on the streets and Hollywood Wild West shoot-outs across the country, it is a exceptionally rare story indeed where a lawful defensive use of a firearms resulted in the death or injury of an innocent. In fact, both data and anecdote appear to indicate that police are far more likely to injure bystanders and innocents than lawful civilian firearm owners.
Your concerns about protecting innocent life certainly appears sincere, but there doesn't seem to actually be a problem of innocents endangered by lawful defensive use of firearms. More concerning, any attempts at trying to eliminate all ancillary risks in a life or death self-defense situation, no less limit such defensive use of firearms as a matter of law, would be entirely impractical and potentially swallow the entire right to self-defense.