Self Defense

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Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

A common fallacy that people have regarding firearms.

From Wikipedia Gun Violence

Between 1987 and 1990, David McDowall found that guns were used in defense during a crime incident 64,615 times annually.
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During this same time period, 1987 and 1990, there were 46,319 gun homicides, and the National Crime Victimization Survey estimates that 2,628,532 nonfatal crimes involving guns occurred.
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Kleck's survey with Marc Gertz in fact used the largest sample size of any survey that ever asked respondents about defensive gun use - 4,977 cases, far more than is typical in national surveys.[69] A study of gun use in the 1990s, by David Hemenway at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, found that criminal use of guns is far more common than self-defense use of guns.
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