- Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
- Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments and are both socially undesirable and illegal
- Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense.
- Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime.
- Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense.
- Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime (NB: i.e. they are not shot by law-abiding citizens in self-defense)
- Few criminals are shot by decent law abiding citizens
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Self-Defense Gun Use
From this article; please visit that site for details from this Harvard study:
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