Thanks for looking up these numbers. I have looked in to it before, and found [0], which implies about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. Of course

Thanks for looking up these numbers. I have looked in to it before, and found [0], which implies about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. Of course, not every self-defense use involves firing a shot, and not every shot fired ends up with a death. 0:https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf