Again with the car analogy? Is that in some NRA handbook that you pull out anytime you want to defend gun ownership? What's the average monthly usage of your car, as opposed to you shooting off your firearms? I haven't shot my shotgun in almost 3 years. I drive my car every day for an average of an hour per day. Go on a trip out of the city, and multiply that time by 3 - 5 hours in a day. There's just as many cars as guns, but probably twice as many owners. Needless to say the accidental death statistics would be much higher for an owner of an automobile. 99.999999999999999%? Try again.
Based on survey data from the U.S. Department of Justice, roughly 5,340,000 violent crimes were committed in the United States during 2008. These include simple/aggravated assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, and murders.
[13][14][15] Of these, about 436,000 or 8% were committed by offenders visibly armed with a gun
Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the
Journal of Quantitative Criminology,
[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year
A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun "for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere." Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all "military service, police work, or work as a security guard
A 1994 survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 498,000 times per year
Actually, there are roughly 350 million owned guns by private citizens. If you take your numbers...and do the math. 99.9% of guns are NOT used in crimes.