Reply #131: Side point

[AtheistCrusader]

I wish we had better criminal activity reporting in this country. It should be much easier than it is to discuss legal defensive gun use in this country. Of course, we can never capture how many attacks might be prevented entirely, because the potential attacker was awed by the potential victim having a firearm, but actual DGU's have thin reporting.

60k per year is actually quite a lot, but I don't entirely even trust the DOJ numbers, and then there's the absurd Kleck studies..

Reporting isn't rocket science. It should be uniform and reliable across all states. It isn't. It really does hurt useful firearms policy discussion.