depending on where you look, anywhere from 500,000-3 million crimes are prevented annually by responsible gun ownership?

What amazes me is that you cant find more than a few thousand police reports om DGU, even the FBI did a study and said its about 67,740 a year.

The data you are refering to is from the CDC, where did the CDC get their data do you know? i will save you some time. Kleck and Gertz, two individuals who admitted their study was bullshit and filled with to many false positives. So another group used the same method they did and said the same thing its to many false positives. In 2018 again they ran the same thing.

"Kleck-Gertz estimate of 2.5 million DGUs per year, and other similar estimates, "are not plausible given other information that is more trustworthy, such as the total number of U.S. residents who are injured or killed by guns each year." The same report also stated that "At the other extreme, the NCVS estimate of 116,000 DGU incidents per year"

You can spin it however the fuck you want to make yourself feel better that CDC report yall spam around your NRA comventions and gun nut blogs isnt true.

Eveb Harvard University looked at the CDC stufies and said no fucking way, not possible. Do you know how? they compared the data between three different research groups and found the CDC was full of shit instead of just publishing data they got from another source and hope uts true.