Nonsense, although I know why you think so. The lame stream media all but never reports law abiding gun owners successfully using a firearm to protect themselves. If they did it would undermine their agenda of convincing the sheeple that all guns = bad.
Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day
source Targeting Guns
, Dr. Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State University, Aldine, 1997
No, you know why? On the application they ask if you've ever threatened to shoot someone. Naturally I checked the "No" box.
So much for those stupid useless ineffective background checks huh.