According to DOJ crime statistics (
http://gunfacts.info/), guns are used by private citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home invasion, carjacking, etc., 99% of the time without a shot being fired, and considering that for every black person murdered by a white person, thirty-nine white people are murdered by blacks, non-Eric Holder's people need all the help they can get.