NEW STUDY; Guns DO NOT make a person safer

In 2010, across the nation there were only 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm reported to the FBI. That same year, there were 8,275 criminal gun homicides. Using these numbers, in 2010, for every justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 36 criminal homicides. This ratio does not take into account the thousands of lives ended in gun suicides (19,392) or unintentional shootings (606) that year. 

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-study-totally-refutes-claim-that.html

The actual study results
https://www.vpc.org/press/1304self.htm