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(4,462 posts)result of lawful gun owners? Hint - the rate is VERY low. Note also that out suicide rate is comparable to areas with strict gun control like much of Europe, and much lower than gun control havens like Japan and South Korea.
You also are quite dismissive of the innumerable defensive uses of firearms by lawful gun owners. Are the lives they saved any more or less valuable than victims of firearm violence?
Unless you can "uninvent" firearms or have a remotely practical plan to remove over 300 million legal guns in our country (btw, it's 80-100+ million gun owners, and 300 million legal guns, plus untold numbers of illegal firearms and owners), to say nothing of the legal and electoral impediments to such a plan, a gun is still the best and most effective tool for self-defense for most people, particularly against an armed or multiple assailants, or if you're small, weak, old, disabled, etc.
Lastly, you shouldn't be so surprised about a story concerning defensive gun use. They're quite common, and usually only a small local interest story. Try searching on Google. However, for a start, Reddit has an entire sub-forum devoted to the topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dgu/