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So far I've found the following... (I'll add more as I have time to go
through more)
- Only 0.1% (1 in a thousand) of the defensive uses of guns results in the
death of the predator. This means you are much more likely to prevent a
crime without bloodshed than hurt a family member.
- Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves
against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a
day, or once every 13 seconds.151 Of these instances, 15.6% of the people
using firearms defensively stated that they "almost certainly" saved their
lives by doing so.
- Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.
- In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either
threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for
self-defense.
- The rate of defensive gun use (SGU) is six times that of criminal gun use.
- Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns to defend themselves, 92% merely
brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. |
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