New Article On Defensive Gun Use

[WillBrink]

Great article via CRS:

At Real Clear Investigations: There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey indicates that around 100,000 defensive gun uses occur each year — an estimate that, though it may seem like a lot, is actually much lower than 17 other surveys. They find between 760,000 defensive handgun uses and 3.6 million defensive uses of any type of gun per year, with an average of about 2 million.

The difference between these surveys arises from the screening questions. The National Crime Victimization Survey first asks a person if they have been a victim of a crime. Only respondents who answer “yes” are asked if they have ever used a gun defensively.

In contrast, the other surveys screen respondents by asking if they have been threatened with violence. That produces more self-acknowledged defensive gun users, since someone who successfully brandished a gun is less likely to self-characterize as a crime victim. Survey dataindicate that in 95% of cases when people use guns defensively, they merely show the gun to make the criminal back off. Such defensive gun uses rarely make the news, though a few do.

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https://crimeresearch.org/2021/09/at...-hear-of-them/

[T2C]

In the national data homicides are often lumped into one category whether they are justified or not. When the media and the Democrats start railing on firearm owners, they quote the total number of deaths as a result of homicides, suicides and accidental shootings. When homicides are broken down into legally justified or a criminal act, the numbers weigh favorably toward the concealed carry license holder and armed homeowner.

[WillBrink]

In the national data homicides are often lumped into one category whether they are justified or not. When the media and the Democrats start railing on firearm owners, they quote the total number of deaths as a result of homicides, suicides and accidental shootings. When homicides are broken down into legally justified or a criminal act, the numbers weigh favorably toward the concealed carry license holder and armed homeowner.

The anti's include cops shooting criminals in their "gun violence" figures, so that tells us all we need to know about their intellectual honesty. They have none.