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Originally Posted by Pacifier
23 000 000 ?! that would result in every 13th american has used a gun in self defence. Have you asked your friends how many used their guns that way?
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Extra zero in there, sorry about that. The number I've seen is 2.3M
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
gunfacts.info puts the FBI estimate around 2.5 million. probably not that high, but i'd believe over 1 million
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Hmm, I guess they updated their data. You have to be careful with that, though -- a number of FBI reports cited regarding gun crime statistics specifically state in their introductions that the data cannot be reliably used to predict or analyze gun crime statistics.