During a June 23 appearance on CNN, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt shut down host Carol Costello’s gun violence inquisition by reminding her that she had omitted defensive gun uses.
Pratt’s statement came after Costello referencecd Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures and said more than “100,000” people are wounded by gun shots annually, with “33,600” killed in 2013. She said the death figures included suicides but she did not point out that suicides constitute 66 percent of the death figures.
She then began an inquisition of Pratt based on the number of wounded and killed, but Pratt fired back, saying, “Well, what you failed to point out Carol is that the CDC als0–pursuant to President Obama issuing a decree to have them study this issue–they found that anywhere from 500,000 to 3 million times a year guns are being used for self-defense.” READ MORE: WATCH VIDEO
