Self-Defense Gun Use doesn't exist

[The Magistrate]

5. True Enough, Sir, When One Rounds Down....

It is an over-statement to say it never happens, but it is hugely less common than 'Team NRA' likes to claim and pretend.

It is also true that a great proportion of claimed instances of 'self defense with a gun' boil down to someone simply displaying a gun when they 'feel threatened', upon which someone who saw the gun departs the scene. You have first the layer of total fiction, of a person simply making up the story, and then you have the further layer of whether the person assessed the situation correctly, and frightened off a criminal, or assessed the situation poorly, and simply menaced someone who simply had the misfortune to be near an armed paranoiac.