Timothy Goss once again gives us the emotionally laden argument of more gun control being worth it if it saves at just one child. The opposite can also be argued. Would continued or expanded gun ownership be worth it if it saves the lives of just one child? We continuously hear and read about the unfortunate injuries and deaths of children. What we don't hear is about the many times a gun has saved lives including the lives of children. That's likely because in these instances, the victims aren't injured or killed; only the attacker is injured or killed. The latter is not as news worthy and as emotionally laden. "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along."
Statistically, somewhere between 55,000 and 4.7 million defensive uses of firearms take place in this country annually. Somewhere in that very broad spectrum is the actual figure, the middle figure being 2.7 million defensive gun uses annually. But we never hear about the "epidemic" of defensive gun uses.