Reply #69: Let the statistics reasure you.

[I work for workers]

For 2005 (the last year I could find data for all these things) there were approximately 477,040 gun crimes in the US. There were approximately 30,694 firearm related death in the same time period. That leaves around half a million gun crimes/deaths a year.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, defensive gun uses are estimated to occur between 100,000 and 2,500,000 times per year. It's quite possible, even likely, that more defensive gun uses occur per year then gun crimes do.