I haven’t clicked his links, but assuming he’s linking you to the Harvard study, that study in an effort to debunk Kleck and Lott’s figures used by the CDC estimated “a more realistic DGU/yr at 100,000.” Well, being that there are 60,000 total gun deaths/yr in this country including suicide, I’m inclined to believe that based on the raw numbers they do in fact get used more for defense than to kill oneself or others, as 100k>60k.
This is a naive comparison, as you are not counting the many cases where people use guns to harm others without killing them. There are on the order of 500,000 fatal and nonfatal violent crimes involving a firearm committed every year in The United States.
I haven’t clicked his links, but assuming he’s linking you to the Harvard study, that study in an effort to debunk Kleck and Lott’s figures used by the CDC estimated “a more realistic DGU/yr at 100,000.” Well, being that there are 60,000 total gun deaths/yr in this country including suicide, I’m inclined to believe that based on the raw numbers they do in fact get used more for defense than to kill oneself or others, as 100k>60k.
This is a naive comparison, as you are not counting the many cases where people use guns to harm others without killing them. There are on the order of 500,000 fatal and nonfatal violent crimes involving a firearm committed every year in The United States.