Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage. The President wants tougher gun-control 1 and thinks it will work. The public supports more gun-control laws but 2 they won't work. The public is right. Legal restraints on the lawful purchase of guns will have little effect on the illegal use of guns. Only about two percent of the 65 million or so 3 owned handguns are employed to commit crimes, and only about one-sixth of those are purchased from a gun shop. Most handguns used by criminals are 4 , borrowed or bought privately. Efforts to shrink the stock of legally purchased guns or ammunition would reduce the 5 of law-abiding people to defend themselves. Gun-control 6 laugh at the importance of self-defense, but they are wrong to do so. On the basis of a survey, it is estimated that every year guns are 7 or fired for defensive purposes more than million times by civilians. This would mean that the number of people who defend themselves with a gun 8 the number of arrests for violent crimes and burglaries. Evidence supports the claim that self-defense is a 9 form of deterrence. According to the bureau of Justice Statistics, people who defend themselves with a weapon were less likely to lose 10 in a robbery or be injured in an assault than those who did not defend themselves. A) temper B) legitimate C) displayed D) stolen E) prompt F) capacity G) advocates H) means I) exceeds J) expands K) property L) privately M) legislation N) suspects O) negative