[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

http://www.the-broad-side.com/guns-f...versus-reality

I found a very similar lopsided number at...

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-self-defense/

And the actual research report from the Violence Policy Center at...

http://www.vpc.org/studies/justifiable15.pdf

The numbers from this report come to 32 to 1. So we're doing so much better as a gun culture than we used to back when the number was 43 to 1.