I know you guys are having fun with your anecdotes and suppositions, but perhaps I could include some actual research into this discussion?
That study found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year in the United States.
Look up the study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, “Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 86 (1995): 173
If you are interested in what is ACTUALLY happening regarding guns and self-defense, rather than just what your favorite media outlet chooses to tell you, perhaps you can make a little effort to find out.
Here is a link to the study:
http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/kleckandgertz1.htm
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