Gun owners not likely to use firearms for self-defense, study claims

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5. Intentional conflation of violent criminals with gun owners.

The majority of homicides are committed by people who can't legally so much as touch a gun or a single round of ammunition; very, very few homicides are committed by first-time offenders, as the VPC well knows.

Of course, the VPC is the same organization that trolled Dems into throwing away the House and Senate in 1994 over the VPC's "assault weapon" fraud, who pushed the "precision bolt-actions are a threat to airliners" meme, etc. etc., and who tried to portray holders of concealed carry licenses (statistically even less likely to commit unjustifiable homicide than law enforcement are) so consider the source.