Guns are Rarely Used to Kill Criminals or Stop Crimes New VPC Analysis Reveals

[Alva Goldbook]

3. So WILDLY Wrong it's laughable.

This seems to be assuming that the ONLY time a gun is used for self defense is when a "justifiable homicide" has occurred. That is a legal definition. There are also "reasonable homicides". Furthermore, this assumes that homicides is the only time a gun is used for self-defense. The majority of times, just showing a weapon is enough to prevent a crime. Recently a Wisconsin man held a man at gun point on the street after he saw him beating a defenseless woman nearly to death. No gun fire happened. He just help him there until the police arrived. Is that not a defensive use of a gun?

The Justice Dept. looked into this, and found that there are 1.5 million self defense uses of guns every single year. Don't believe me? Check this out and scroll about half way down until you see the section "Defensive gun uses".

https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/165476.txt