There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.

A 32 caliber handgun in Temecula, Calif., on March 27, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them.

On May 15, an attacker at an apartment complex in Fort Smith, Ark., fatally shot a woman and then fired 93 rounds at other people before a man killed him with a bolt-action rifle. Police said he “likely saved a number of lives in the process.”