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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
That study found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States.
Look up the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, “Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 86 (1995): 173
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For those that passed over it.... If you are interested in what is ACTUALLY happening regarding guns and self-defense, rather than just what your favorite media outlet chooses to tell you, perhaps you can make a little effort to find out.
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/kleckandgertz1.htm
(and BTW, for those who think that cops are somehow better trained than the average person.... I was a reserve deputy sheriff, with the full firearms qualification. It was about 4 weeks of classroom and range time, (not full time, either), and after that you simply had to go qualify once every 6 months, and it wasn't made hard to do. There are TONS of crappy shooting cops out there, and TONS of well trained, in practice civilians.)
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