re: A quick answer
Does the number of people killed in illegal gun homicides FAR exceed the number of people saved using guns in self defense? By orders of magnitude?!
Uh, no.
There are an estimated 80,000 to 2.5 million occasions a year in which a gun is used for protective, defensive, or deterrent purposes, depending on which sources you use. This is compared to about 30,000 deaths related to guns, of which about half are suicides. One of many ways where the anti-gun people lie with statistics is to compare the gun deaths of non-criminals to the times when criminals are actually killed during a crime by a gun.
The top spokesman for the NRA was mentally disabled- that sums up the NRA...
Are we talking about Heston's Alzheimers? Nice cheap shot, there.