Hey dumbass, if you think these internet forums constitute even a tiny percentage of actual gun owners, you are a total moron. What is the actual number of people who fantasized about shooting someone? 5? 6? A dozen? 12 people would constitute 0.000004% of the population. It amounts to 0.000013% of the 91 million gun owners. If you have 75 people fantasizing about killing someone, you are still only dealing with 0.000024% of the population or 0.000082% of the gun owners. And yet, this is what you insist is the truth about gun owners?
No, not gun owners.
The gun nuts. The NRA members. The scary people who own 20 guns and complain about that day they want to fight the government.
Yet these guys never seem to encounter the criminals who they never, ever seem to shoot. (most of the 200 "Self-defense homicides' are in fact domestic violence where the victim wins, as opposed to the thousands where she loses because there was a gun in the house.)
But don't worry. We'll just cut f unding to gun studies so we don't know how bad the problem is. and some clown like Kleck can come along and claim there are millions of DGU's and no one will contradict him because no one is applying, you know, science.
And your problem....it isn't just Kleck.....40 years of research shows that defensive gun use is common....and even the bill clinton Department of Justice research, done specifically to rebut Kleck...showed 1,500,000 defensive gun uses a year........
Self defense with a gun:
Self defense with a gun......40 years of actual research...the group that did the study, the year of the study, and then the number of defensive gun uses.....and in parentheses....wether police and military defensive use was included.....
A quick guide to the studies and the numbers.....the full lay out of what was studied by each study is in the links....
GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense
GunCite Frequency of Defensive Gun Use in Previous Surveys
Field...1976....3,052,717 ( no cops, military)
DMIa 1978...2,141,512 ( no cops, military)
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,68 ( no cops, military)
Kleck......1994...2.5 million ( no cops, military)
Obama's CDC....2013....500,000--3million
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Bordua...1977...1,414,544
DMIb...1978...1,098,409 ( no cops, military)
Hart...1981...1.797,461 ( no cops, military)
Mauser...1990...1,487,342 ( no cops, military)
Gallup...1993...1,621,377 ( no cops, military)
DEPT. OF JUSTICE...1994...1.5 million ( the bill clinton study)
Journal of Quantitative Criminology--- 989,883 times per year."
(Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the
Journal of Quantitative Criminology,
[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.
[18])
Paper: "Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment." By David McDowall and others.
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2000.
Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment - Springer
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Ohio...1982...771,043
Gallup...1991...777,152
Tarrance... 1994... 764,036 (no cops, military)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..
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If you take the studies from that Kleck cites in his paper, 16 of them....and you only average the ones that exclude military and police shootings..the average becomes 2 million...I use those studies because I have the details on them...and they are still 10 studies (including Kleck's)....