04-12-2024, 02:42 PM
"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal"
"Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense"
"Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime"
"Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense"
"Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens"
"Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions"
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firea...gun-use-2/
"Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense"
"Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime"
"Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense"
"Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens"
"Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions"
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firea...gun-use-2/