"Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year… … The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use. A different issue is whether defensive use of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies." from: Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence Is it ironic that this was commissioned by the 23 Executive Orders issued in the wake of Sandy Hook, with the intent of producing a justification for further pushing the irrational fear of inanimate objects?
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 02:47:20 +0000
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