Although the comment, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” has become so trite that it has become the topic of countless bumper stickers and other various memorabilia, the quotation remains a strong sentiment of the reasoning behind anti-gun control activists work. The comment is unarguable and research is not necessary to substantiate it; a gun is an inanimate object

and has no autonomous power to harm or kill anyone. Therefore, it is imperative that the true issue, education, remains paramount.

Gun control advocates sometimes cite ridiculous statistics like saying that a firearm in the home is 43 times more likely to be used against a member of that household than an outside attacker (Kellermann 1557). However, closer scrutiny of these statistics would likely show that those who were injured or killed were likely to end up that way because they lived in the same house with a violent criminal rather than that they lived with a gun around. Moreover, victims who defended themselves with guns were less likely to report being injured than those who either defended themselves by other means or took no self-protective measures at all. Thus, while 33 percent of all surviving robbery victims were injured, only 25 percent of those who offered no resistance and 17 percent of those who defended themselves with guns were injured. For surviving assault victims, the corresponding injury rates were, respectively, 30 percent, 27 percent, and 12 percent (Kleck 18)..."

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