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Originally Posted by blakamin
Ahh, that's where you got me wrong. A gun safe is a brilliant idea, guns for "self defense" aren't.
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The (somewhere between 100,000 and 5,000,000) cases of a defensive gun use in the usa will get many or most to disagree with your opinion.
Media bias as a jumping off point and that only 'dirty laundry' will get airtime, the vast majority of cases where a handgun is used for defense will not even be reported. A wanna-be mugger pulls a knife (or a gun), a would-be victim pulls his gun, and the attacker runs away. That's how it usually goes down; the % is very hard to pin down as most of those cases do not get reported.
Honestly i was surprised to see the numbers as high as they are but the LOWEST estimates are about 50,000 and a honest reporting likely is in the 1 million range. So; about 1 million times a year in the usa, somebody uses a gun in self defense. There aren't a million gun deaths or even injuries, so that bodes well for the self-defense case.
You can find links to plenty of studies on the DGU page of wikipedia