Need help in a gun control debate

[cheese]

Does anyone know a recent study of defensive gun usages? I've found studies that are nearly 20 years old (and widely differing). I'm hoping to find some more recent information.

Suggestions?

 

[Emperor]

FBI Crimes Statistics website.

 

[cheese]

That does give me justified homicides, but I'm hoping to get all defensive uses....

 

[Emperor]

That does give me justified homicides, but I'm hoping to get all defensive uses....

What about US Justice Department site?

 

[lsufan1971]

http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/noframedex.html

Found this

 

[bs875]

Found this

Did you find it in 1995? That is one old looking web page.

 

[Bill Baldwin]

http://www.tscm.com/165476.pdf page 9. This is an old study (May 1997), by a couple of anti-gun rights advocates.

Some troubling comparisons. If the DGU numbers are in the right ballpark, millions of attempted assaults, thefts, and break-ins were foiled by armed citizens during the 12-month period. According to these results, guns are used far more often to defend against crime than to perpetrate crime.