Editor's note: A debate about defensive gun uses

✍ Scribed by Janet A. Weiss

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199822)17:3<521::aid-pam6>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

How Many Defensive Uses Per Year?" The article focused on how frequently Americans use a gun to defend against a criminal attack (called defensive gun uses or DGUs). Cook, Ludwig, and Hemenway argued that one published estimate of 2.5 million is a dramatic overestimate of the true incidence of defensive gun uses. This estimate of 2.5 million DGUs comes from research by