spartan231490 said:
"Official" statistics? Please tell me you're joking. This study is no longer accepted as accurate for estimating DGUs, for all the reasons stated here: http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html
You mean that the study that was posted in May 2013, by the Departmant of Justice is no longer accepted?
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf#page=12 thats the link in full.
spartan231490 said:
You can tell that, because even the anti-gun Obama study concluded that there are more DGUs each year than criminal uses of guns: http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/73619-obama-ordered-cdc-study-contradicts-white-house-anti-gun-narrative/ and before you start asking about the source, I'm sorry I can't find the original study, but I consider the massive number of websites saying the same thing with not a single dissenter to be a pretty good confirmation of accuracy:
Nonsense, If you want to use that come back with the data not opinion pieces disguised as news sources
spartan231490 said:
If there was an official DGU number, it would be 1.5 million DGUs each year as found by the national institute of justice in 1994. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf
You try to trump a 2013 study by the department of justice with a 1994 study by the department of justice? The world changes in 20 years.
EDIT: In fact, looking closer at your 1994 DOJ study brings up this little gem on page 9 https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf#page=9 and I quote
"The results still suggest that DGU estimates are far too high.
For example, in only a small fraction of rape and robbery attempts do victims use guns in self-defense. It does not make sense, then, that the NSPOF estimate of the number of rapes in
which a woman defended herself with a gun was more than the total number of rapes estimated from NCVS" (edit for formating)
and
"NSPOF estimates also suggest that 130,000 criminals are wounded or killed by civilian gun defenders. That number also appears completely out of line with other, more reliable statistics on the number of gunshot cases"