>>According to 1993 New England Journal of Medicine study, the presence of a gun in the home led to a tripling of the risk of homicide in the home.
>>Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend, or acquaintance than to kill an intruder.
>>In 1993, there were only 251 justifiable handgun homicides compared with a total of 14,204 handgun murders in the United States.
>>Compared to victims in other types of family murder, victims in spouse murders were the most likely to have died from a gunshot (53%).
>>Every day, 15 American children are killed with guns. (National Center for Health Statistics, 1991)
>>Over 60% of the non-family murders and over 40% of family murders were committed with a gun.
>>1 in 4 law enforcement officers killed with handguns in 1989 were killed with their own weapons. (FBI Uniform Crime Reports)
>>70 percent of all officers slain from 1981 to 1990 were killed by handguns. Interestingly, 85 percent of the victim officers did not discharge their service weapons.
>>More than 1.2 million elementary-aged, latch-key children have access to guns in their homes.

FACT: As many as 100 Americans die each day from gunshot wounds. Half are suicides.

FACT: More Americans are killed in gun homicides in one day than in an entire year in Japan.

FACT: Texans own 68 million guns. There are 17 million Texans. That's four guns for every man, woman and child.