Tell that to the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Justice....they did only 2 of about a dozen studies that show defensive gun uses are common and happen every single day.
All those studies are bullshit, and just copy each other.
Here's why common sense tells us that those studies are bullshit.
According to the FBI, there are only 200 gun deaths a year that are ruled justified self-defense by civilians. (We'll leave cops and their 900-1200 shootings to the side because you pretty much have to catch one of them on tape shooting a kid in the back 16 times while he's lying on the ground to convict him.)
So you would have to believe that gun nuts pull out their guns 1.1 times, but only kill 200 people?
Given how much you gun nuts fantasize every day about shooting you a darkie and winning the Zimmerman Prize, that's a little hard to believe.
And if you didn't lie and hide the truth, you wouldn't have anything to post..........
Most self defense does not require killing the criminal attacker....since they aren't in it to do or die, but to victimize and escape ....so when the victim shows their gun, the criminal runs away, or surrenders....and even when they are shot, a gun is not a death ray, they are typically injured, then captured....it is only in the most rare cases where the criminal is so stupid, that they press their attack after the victim presents a gun...
And these are the gun studies...notice how many there are, and how high the numbers are...
A quick guide to the studies and the numbers.....the full lay out of what was studied by each study is in the links....
The name of the group doing the study, the year of the study, the number of defensive gun uses and if police and military defensive gun uses are included.....notice the bill clinton and obama defensive gun use research is highlighted.....
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, no military)
DMIa 1978...2,141,512 ( no cops, no military)
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,68 ( no cops, no military)
Kleck......1994...2.5 million ( no cops, no military)
CDC...1996-1998... 1.1 million averaged over those years.( no cops, no military)
Obama's CDC....2013....500,000--3million
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Bordua...1977...1,414,544
DMIb...1978...1,098,409 ( no cops, no military)
Hart...1981...1.797,461 ( no cops, no military)
Mauser...1990...1,487,342 ( no cops,no military)
Gallup...1993...1,621,377 ( no cops, no 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, no military)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..