The Rude Pundit: Man Who Shot Movie Theater Texter Is Using "Stand Your Ground" Defense ...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

75. Where do you see the "500,000 to 3,000,000" -

because it sure as heck isn't on page 15.

Did you even READ the report you linked to? It speaks at length about how hard it is to determine the actual rates of Defense Gun Use using the two major studies (from the 90's, I might add), and how the various other surveys to date have used such different questions and looked at such different populations their conclusions can be hard to reconcile. In fact they make the following recommendations:

"The committee recommends a systematic and rigorous research program to (1) clearly define and understand what is being measured, (2) understand inaccurate response in the national use surveys, and (3) develop methods to reduce reporting errors to the extent possible. Well-established survey sampling methods can and should be brought to bear to evaluate the response problems. Understanding response will be useful for not only explaining the striking gap in DGU estimates but, more importantly, understanding defensive gun use."