Self-Defense Gun Use

From this article; please visit that site for details from this Harvard study:

• 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