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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/defensive-gun-ownership-myth-114262[url]

Can somebody post the opposite? Recent examples of guns used successfully for personal defense?[/quote]

There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per year by law abiding citizens. That was one of the findings in a national survey conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist in 1993. Prior to Dr. Kleck's survey, thirteen other surveys indicated a range of between 800,000 to 2.5 million DGU's annually. However these surveys each had their flaws which prompted Dr. Kleck to conduct his own study specifically tailored to estimate the number of DGU's annually.

Subsequent to Kleck's study, the Department of Justice sponsored a survey in 1994 titled, Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (text, PDF). Using a smaller sample size than Kleck's, this survey estimated 1.5 million DGU's annually.

There is one study, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which in 1993, estimated 108,000 DGU's annually.

Department of Justice studies; government funded studies: these are highly reliable and above the political fray.  They all demonstrate that defensive fun uses are extremely common; more common than most Americans realize  (and which the press almost never admits).

Link:

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

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