be brandished. federal research on gun research is spotty. that s a political problem. we don t want to take a look at this close enough. why? we have a very different situation today. their own number creates a frightening reality, for a gun to be used in self defense 2.5 million times a year, that s once every 13 seconds. the fbi actually counts the average of justified homicides that use a gun. those numbers don t size up. for all the talk about mental illness, studies show the u.s. doesn t have more mental illness than anywhere else, but we have