You claimed they are so lawful. I proved they kill a lot of people. You lose.
Lawful means they are within the law. Killing somebody who is breaking into your home is lawful. Accidental deaths are not against the law, they are accidental. Suicides are not illegal because of the obvious reasons. In other words, your link is fudged data with nothing to back it up.
Here, try some honest data for a change.
Report: Concealed Carry Permit Holders Are The Most Law-Abiding People In The Country
John Lott? Haha. That guy is a complete joke and his name is on 99% of pro gun studies. Some real study info.
In his book, More Guns, Less Crime, as well as in other published articles, John Lott claims that RTC laws save lives and reduce violent crime. Lott argues that when more law-abiding citizens carry guns, more crimes will be deterred or successfully interrupted. Importantly, he contends that those who can legally own guns have such low rates of criminal offending, that the net effect of RTC laws and more legal gun carrying is to significantly lower rates of violent crime.
Lott’s research to support these claims, however, has been found to be flawed in many important ways.6,7,8,9 When those flaws are corrected, no crime-reducing effects of RTC laws are evident.
The most comprehensive, and arguably most rigorous, study on the effects of RTC laws was recently published by economists John Donohue
(Stanford), Abhay Aneja (University of California, Berkeley), and Kyle Weber (Columbia). Donohue and colleagues found that violent crime rates increased with each additional year a RTC law was in place, presumably as more people were carrying guns on their person and in their vehicles.b,10 By years 7 through 10 following the adoption of a RTC law, violent crime rates were 11% to 14% higher than predicted had such laws not been in place. After controlling for changes in incarceration rates and the number of police per capita, RTC laws were associated with a 10% higher murder rate 10 years following the adoption of RTC laws.11 This is consistent with findings from a prior study showing that violent crime increased with each year an RTC law was in place 12 and a recent study that found RTC laws are associated with a 10.6% increase in homicides committed with handguns. 13
https://www.jhsph.edu/research/cent.../publications/concealed-carry-of-firearms.pdf