... is starting to document DGU:
In a new Cato Institute paper, Clayton Cramer and David Burnett review the controversy over how often Americans use guns in self-defense each year. Estimates range from about 100,000 to more than 2 million, and the surveys used to generate the numbers are subject to weaknesses that plausibly lead to undercounting or exaggeration. Cramer and Burnett's contribution, an analysis of defensive gun uses reported in the press during an eight-year period, does not resolve this issue.
Of course, one of the weaknesses in their work is that in cases where the brandishing of a weapon stops the crime, most people don't call the police, therefore the documented cases are likely far below what is actually happening.
And that's good news for our side.
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Yep, concur! Although both instances where I used a gun in a defensive situation, even though I never had to fire, cops were called...
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