I thought Mikey died because he ran out of Life?

[gerrycaruso]

Worcester is not a very nice place. It's the reason my son stopped carrying the bodyguard and went to a 9mm.

 

[Thirwell1216]

I'm glad the 8 percent had access to a gun for personal protection....I'm sure there are more instances of self defense where a firearm is pulled and not discharged that largely go un reported as the person being targeted doesn't want to get jammed up in legal problems.

 

[dcmdon]

I'm glad the 8 percent had access to a gun for personal protection....I'm sure there are more instances of self defense where a firearm is pulled and not discharged that largely go un reported as the person being targeted doesn't want to get jammed up in legal problems.

There is a stat that the left likes to use that goes something like this. A firearm in the home is 4 times more likely to be used against a person in the home than to protect it from an intruder.

I haven't gotten into it in many years. But there are many problems with this.

First is that they only counted a defensive gun use (DGU) if the bad guy died.

I dug around a bit and found something like this.
70% of DGUs a shot is never fired.
60% of DGUs where a gun is fired, nobody is actually hit.
80% of DGUs where someone is hit, nobody dies.

If you do the math on this (0.3 x 0.4 x 0.2), you see that the aggressor dies in only about 2.4% of DGUs.

Even if you change the assumptions significantly the number is still very small.

50% of DGUs a shot is never fired.
50% of DGUs where a gun is fired, nobody is actually hit.
60% of DGUs where someone is hit, nobody dies.

0.5 x 0.5 x 0.4 =0.1 or

10% of the time that a DGU occurs the aggressor dies.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

• About 92% of gun owners say they’ve never used their firearm to protect themselves
• Less than 1% said they’d used their gun for protection within the past year

I'd guess that the figures are at least that high/low for fire extinguishers, AED devices, and stop the bleed kits that are now showing up in public places.

The wording is misleading. Using the fire example, sprinkler systems are considered to "protect against fire" even if they never are activated.

 

[center442]

They surveyed 8000 adults to determine defensive use of firearms.

5000 of the participants said they didn't have access to firearms. Why the hell were they included in this survey other than to skew the percentages? Pathetic.

This isn't a survey, it's an opinion piece.

 

[June4th]

• About 92% of gun owners say they’ve never used their firearm to protect themselves

Geewiz, if 8% gun owners need to use their guns during their lifetime for self-protection purposes, that’s a pretty significant probability to warrant carrying every day.

 

[Rockrivr1]

I like this report better.

Study: Concealed Carriers Stop Active Shooters Better Than Police

Civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, the Crime Prevention Research Center found.

thefederalist.com

 

[dcmdon]

They surveyed 8000 adults to determine defensive use of firearms.

5000 of the participants said they didn't have access to firearms. Why the hell were they included in this survey other than to skew the percentages? Pathetic.

This isn't a survey, it's an opinion piece.

And what is the chance that if someone does have a firearm and did use it defensively, he'd tell some guy who just called on the phone?
In all seriousness, I don't know anyone who WOULD.