>>Gun use in defensive situations seems to happen about a tenth to an eighth as often as criminal use. I think you mean instances where a shot is actually fire

>>Gun use in defensive situations seems to happen about a tenth to an eighth as often as criminal use. I think you mean instances where a shot is actually fired? I believe there are 40-50,000 self-defense uses per year in the U.S., a nation of ~330,000,000, though that does not necessarily mean a shot was fired [0] 0: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf p. 12