Originally Posted by Lunatech

I think that's the low number. Depending on your source, it's somewhere between 750,000 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses by civilians. This does not mean that the civilian in question shot at an attacker/burglar/whatever, the number includes people who have brandished a gun but never fired a shot.

Although I think that there was a survey that claimed the total was actually 108,000, I just can't seem to find the survey. Even then, if 108,000 people have used a gun defensively per year, that is a pretty good reason to keep guns around....