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35. You are only looking at one side of the scale. ....

Firearms are also used for legitimate self defense.

How Often Do We Use Guns in Self-Defense?
By Paul Barrett December 27, 2012

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So how often do Americans use guns to defend themselves? If it almost never happens, then the NRA argument is based on a fallacy and deserves little respect in the fashioning of public policy. If, on the other hand, defensive gun use (DGU) is relatively common, then even a diehard gun-control advocate with any principles and common sense would admit that this fact must be given some weight.

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What’s the upshot?

1. We don’t know exactly how frequently defensive gun use occurs.

2. A conservative estimate of the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of times a year; 100,000 is not a wild gun-nut fantasy....emphasis added
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense

My mother was walking home from work in the 1920 time frame. A man hiding behind some bushes rushed her. Fortunately she had a tiny S&W revolver in her purse and she was able to draw it in time to fire two shoots over her attacker's head. He ran.

A man tried to force the sliding glass door of our home open one night. He was halfway through the door when my daughter pointed a large caliber revolver at him. He also ran.

In most incidents involving DGU (defensive gun uses) no shots are fired. The fact that the victim is armed with a lethal weapon causes to predator to stop his attack. Such incidents never make it into the statistics.