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In reply to the discussion: Customer shoots bank robber in Warren [View all]maxsolomon
(33,426 posts)it is a compilation of DGU estimates from other surveys.
those sources (NCVS, Gary Kleck et al) are what my link disputes. only 1600 DGUs were CONFIRMED in 2014 by the Gun Violence Archive.
<Brand new data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan organization devoted to collecting gun violence data, further confirms Hemenways suspicion that Kleck and Getzs findings are absurd. The archive found that for all of 2014 there were fewer than 1,600 verified defensive guns uses, meaning a police report was filed. This total includes all outcomes and types of defensive uses with a police reporta far cry from the millions that Kleck and Getz estimated.
Many gun advocates will protest at this point that not all defensive gun uses are reported to the police, which is true. However, Klecks surveys and the NCVS reports indicate that more than 50 percent of such incidents are reported to the police. This would indicate 3,200 defensive uses on an annual basis, still well short of what surveys suggest. Further, if there actually are 50,000 defensive gun uses as NCVS data suggests, or more than 1 million as Kleck and Getzs surveys claim, that would mean only 3.2 percent or 0.16 percent respectively of defensive gun uses are reported to the police. Believing that such a small fraction of incidents are reported is indulging in fantasy.>
Dismiss it as partisan - par for the course on DU.