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You might change your mind as you get older. One thing I noted in the required 8 hour class was the demographic leaned fairly older, e.g. 45 and up. If you as
by hga 12y ago
You might change your mind as you get older. One thing I noted in the required 8 hour class was the demographic leaned fairly older, e.g. 45 and up. If you assume 3/5ths of those licenses are held by them (including me), that's 7.5% of the county's population.
As for the figure, Google is your friend: https://www.google.com/search?q=2+million+gun+self+defense+uses https://www.google.com/search?q=2+million+gun+self+defense+u...
These figures come from surveys, and the delightful thing about them is that the gun-grabbers collected the first data set. It didn't ask about the number of times per year, so that one resulted in a figure of at least 1 million times per year.
- maxerickson 12y agoNo, "Google is your friend" is terrible. You pick a source that you think is of high quality and are willing to stand by, not 'every source that sort of mentions it'. The top link from your search extrapolated from a self report survey of less than 5,000 people. This article questions how reliable the end figure is: https://stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/103.myth0.pdf https://stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/103.myth0.pdf