Georgetown University Study - 1.67 Million Self-Defense Incidents Per Year

From Georgetown University we get the following. 2021 National Firearms Survey: Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3887145

This report summarizes the findings of a national survey of firearms ownership and use conducted between February 17th and March 23rd, 2021 by the professional survey firm Centiment. This survey, which is part of a larger book project, aims to provide the most comprehensive assessment of firearms ownership and use patterns in America to date. This online survey was administered to a representative sample of approximately fifty-four thousand U.S. residents aged 18 and over, and it identified 16,708 gun owners who were, in turn, asked in-depth questions about their ownership and their use of firearms, including defensive uses of firearms.

Now Georgetown University is a Jesuit Institution. That doesn't mean as much as it did 30 or 40 years ago. While probably not as Woke as a place like Yale, it has succumb to some of the Woke mind virus. That said, they did find the following.

Consistent with other recent survey research, the survey finds an overall rate of adult firearm ownership of 31.9%, suggesting that in excess of 81.4 million Americans aged 18 and over own firearms. The survey further finds that approximately a third of gun owners (31.1%) have used a firearm to defend themselves or their property, often on more than one occasion, and it estimates that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year.

Handguns are the most common firearms used in self-defense, and in most instances, (81.9% of cases) no shot was fired.

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The hat tip for this goes to Colion Noir and his video Gun Ownership Higher Among Republican Women Than Democrat Men. I can highly recommend the video, and I did recommend it on Friday. It is 7 minutes long.