How Often Are Firearms Used in Self-Defense?There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per year by law abiding citizens. That was one of the findings in a national survey conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist in 1993. Prior to Dr. Kleck's survey, thirteen other surveys indicated a range of between 800,000 to 2.5 million DGU's annually. However these surveys each had their flaws which prompted Dr. Kleck to conduct his own study specifically tailored to estimate the number of DGU's annually.
There is one study, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which in 1993, estimated 108,000 DGU's annually. Why the huge discrepancy between this survey and fourteen others?
Read the article at:
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html*FW Note: An older piece from 2002, but the message remains the same. The mainstream media plays down defensive gun uses by ordinary citizens in favor of reporting how many gang-banging "children" are killed by guns each year.
