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So far I've found the following... (I'll add more as I have time to go
through more)
- Only 0.1% (1 in a thousand) of the defensive uses of guns results in the
death of the
predator.150 This means you are much more likely to prevent a crime without
bloodshed
than hurt a family member.
- Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves
against
criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or
once every 13
seconds.151 Of these instances, 15.6% of the people using firearms
defensively stated that
they "almost certainly" saved their lives by doing so.
- Firearms are used 60 times more often to protect lives than to take lives.
- In 83.5% (2,087,500) of these successful gun defenses, the attacker either
threatened or used force first, proving that guns are very well suited for
self-defense.
- The rate of defensive gun use (SGU) is six times that of criminal gun use.
- Of the 2,500,000 times citizens use guns to defend themselves, 92% merely
brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.
- Less than 8% of the time does a citizen wound his or her attacker, and in
less than one in a thousand instances is the attacker killed.
- Of all forms of firearm homicide, 13% are civilian legal defensive
homicides.
- For every accidental death, suicide, or homicide with a firearm, 10 lives
are saved through defensive use.
- When using guns in self-defense, 91.1% of the time not a single shot is
fired.
- You are far more likely to survive a violent assault if you defend
yourself with a gun. In episodes where a robbery victim was injured, the
injury/defense rates were:
Resisting with a gun 6%
Did nothing at all 25%
Resisted with a knife 40%
Non-violent resistance 45%
- Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are
prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the
gun ever actually fired.
- 60% of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when
they knew the victim was armed. 40% of convicted felons admitted that they
avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed. |
