One of the arguments against gun control is that families feel safer with a gun in the home thinking they would be able to defend themselves from an intruder, when actually the gun is 22 times more likely to be used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self defense, according to a 1998 study by the New England Journal of Medicine. Some statistics you may be surprised to know are; 43% of households with children have guns, 23% of gun households keep a gun loaded, 28% keep a gun hidden and unlocked, but 54% of these parents said that they would be highly concerned in they knew there was a gun in the home of their child's friends. …
