Again...the numbers of all the studies....not just the one the anti gun nuts cling to.....
Okay...again...here are all the studies that actually give numbers for guns used to save lives and stop crimes taken from the table I provided from guncite.com...
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
Bordua...1977...
1,414,544
DMIa 1978..
.2,141,512
DMIb...1978...1,098,409
Hart...1981...1.797,461
Ohio...1982...771,043
Mauser...1990...1,487,342
Gallup...1991...777,153
Gallup...1993...1,621,377
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,682
Tarrance... 1994... 764,036
And this from the clinton justice department...
DEPT. OF JUSTICE...1994...1.5 million
(Subsequent to Kleck's study, the Department of Justice sponsored a survey in 1994 titled, Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (
text,
PDF). Using a smaller sample size than Kleck's, this survey estimated 1.5 million DGU's annually.)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..
.(Lawrence Southwick, Jr.,Guns and Justifiable Homicide: Deterrence and Defense-concludes there are at least 400,000 "fewer violent crimes due to civilian self-defense use of guns" and at least "800,000 violent crimes are deterred each year because of gun ownership and use by civilians.")
From Obama's CDC...they spent 10 million dollars in 2013 for this study...
from
slate.com an article on CDC obama's era...500-3 million defensive gun uses
Handguns suicides mass shootings deaths and self-defense Findings from a research report on gun violence.
7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. “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 … in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008,” says the report. The three million figure is probably high, “based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys.”
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"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."
As shown in the previous footnote, this study did not use a nationally representative population. To correct for this, Just Facts used the following equation:
As Kleck points out in his paper...
....can you answer the question...since none of these studies is lower than about 700,000 times a year....
I re ran the numbers with all of the studies and the average number of times guns are used to save lives and stop violent crime each year in the United States is 1.6 million....this includes Dr. Kleck's 2.5 million and the NCVS study..
8-9,000 gun murders a year vs. 1.6 million times, on average that a non law enforcement, non military, law abiding citizen stops a violent criminal attack or saves a life....
8-9,000 vs. 1.6 million....
Guns save far more lives than they take....even using the lowest numbers from anti gun biased studies.....