Conservatively, How Many People Use a Gun in self-defense a Year?

The self defense question is very interesting, and it kind of surprised me when i first started doing gun research for dave copele at law school. And aaad, i think should not lightly be dismissed by anybody in this debate or discussion. I was stunned at how any sort of reasonable conservative guess at how many times people defend themselves with guns a year is sort of stunningly high. Yo, you'd think you'd hear more about it, or you'd be more common in the news, or something like that. This race is, i think, profound moral and ad political questions, some of which were explored by our colleague, roger pellon in an article that you