Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a National Survey
The number of civilian defensive gun uses (DGUs) against criminal attackers is regularly invoked in public policy debates as a benefit of widespread private ownership of firearms. Yet there is considerable uncertainty for the prevalence of civilian DGUs, with estimates ranging from 108,000 (using th...
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| Language: | English |
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1998
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1998, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 111-131 |
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