The great debate over guns and self-defense

An 18-year-old study estimated that Americans used guns to defend themselves more than two million times per year.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-never-ending-war-over-a-gun-statistic/31873?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The figure has since been ridiculed by other researchers, e.g.,

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/david-hemenway/


The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year?
Philip J. Cook; Jens Ludwig; David Hemenway
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, Special Issue: The New Public
Management in New Zealand and beyond. (Summer, 1997), pp. 463-469.
Stable URL:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0276-8739%28199722%2916%3A3%3C463%3ATGDNMN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3

ALl the same, the NRA still throws the figure in critics' faces, e.g., 

http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/03/bob-costas-interrupts-football-game-to-bash-american-gun-owners/#ixzz2FW7Qd3sv

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