Gun Meme of the Day: Emphasis on the Firearms Edition

Maybe ATF should switch its acronym to FAT, considering where its focus is.

As for the meme and how it relates to ATF’s focus, right about 2/3 of annual “gun deaths” are suicides and there’s effectively no evidence that gun bans or extremely strict gun control has an effect on a country’s (or state’s) suicide rate. Typically 9,000 to 12,000 of annual “gun deaths” are homicides. Did you know 65,773 people died by unintentional poisoning in 2019? Unintentional falls claimed 39,443. Meanwhile, defensive gun uses are estimated to occur 60,000 to 2.5 million times per year and prevent an estimated 400,000 violent crimes from happening each year. Just throwing that out there.