Meister I was surprised you used stats where the person thought the gun saved their life. I mean, it's not as if bias could creep into things especially asking pro gunners
So what you need to do is work out how to make the US gun problem safer. Rather than defaulting to the usual rhetoric that we've been over a billion times, you need to address and talk about gun security, which nutters are a risk and shouldn't have them, walking down streets with guns is mindless, a civilised society doesn't need to roam around with assault rifles etc.. And it has be a cultural change to take it seriously. That way, enjoy guns and vastly reduce deaths.
But gun nuts CAN'T and they DON'T WANT TO, so they deflect every gun conversation to the list I provided. It's the paragraph above that needs addressed, not deflecting with the same old crap.