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The Truth About Guns:
In my post Dennis Henigan on Chardon: Clockwork Edition, I did an analysis of how many lives were saved annually in Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs). I used extremely conservative numbers. Now I am going to use some less conservative ones.
The Kleck-Gertz DGU study estimated that there are between 2.1 and 2.5 million DGUs a year in the U.S. The Ludwig-Cook study came up with 1.46 million. So let’s split the difference and call it 1.88 million DGUs per year.
In the K-G article Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun, 15.7 percent of people who had a DGU reckoned they almost certainly saved a life. Ignoring the ‘probably’ and ‘might have’ saved a life categories for simplicity, 15.7 percent of 1.88 million gives us 295,160 lives saved annually.
3 comments:
You'll never see that statistic reported in the MSM though!
GOD BLESS THE NUGE!.. HE GETS IT!
Just used a similar argument in a Facebook discussion. 10,000+ firearm homicides a year (their statistic). 85,000,000 firearm owners (my statistic - really "Gun Owners" on Facebook statistic) means that .01% of gun owners commit a homicide a year. But 800,000 to 2.5 million (pre-1994 data, just realized) gun owners use firearms for self defense a year, or 1% to 3% of gun owners. Majority of firearm homicides are committed by drug-trade criminals who are responsible for multiple violent felonies (GRRN commercial).
I used really poor research, but the discussion stopped there. The facts win again.
Thanks for the additional - and current - info. I was wondering about a "save a life" statistic for DGU.
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