Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Lott’s latest piece in the Wall Street Journal that discusses the low rate that guns are used to harm people.
(Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 8:35 to 8:44 AM).
Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use Gun in Crime
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than...
Yes, even considering the National Crime Victimization Survey figure of 2.7 million non fatal “gun crimes” yearly, NSSF’s estimate of 422.9 million guns in the US puts an adverse gun use statistic under 1%. And that assumes a gun is used only once for such an adverse gun use, when it’s far more likely that very few individuals use the same gun numerous times.