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    11 months ago

    Not a gun nut. But these studies don’t actually test any hypothesis about defensive gun use.

    It is easily probable that it is simply the case that people obtain firearms for defense against an existing threat or are the threat themselves( i.e are susceptible to far greater violent events than the norm). In order to test that guns actually are ineffective in self-defense you need to compare it to actual incidents of violence towards the gun user.