EDIT: I specifically stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinking. Dems run on "taking away AR-15" but the stats show that isn't going to achieve anything.
In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns.
or vans here in Canada.
According to the FBI homicide stats for US, 297 people were murdered by a rifle in 2018 in the US.
1,515 on the other hand murdered with knives, 443 from blunt hammers, 672 with hands, feet:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
EDIT: I specifically stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinking. Dems run on "taking away AR-15" but the stats show that isn't going to achieve anything.
In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364