On Feb 5, 8:01*pm, Jim Yanik wrote:
"Dave Bugg" wrote innews:O18qj.9992$EK3.5873@trndny04:





Joseph Meehan wrote:
* *The referenced web page is ... well lets say I don't think it is
exactly non-biased.

* *A quick look at their first static:

"the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be projected nationwide to
approximately 2.5 million per year"

* *If you do the numbers quickly, you will find that means that about
1 of every 120 people have been involved in using a gun in a
defensive manor each year.

To clarify for us what you think is meant by DGU, tell us what you
think 'using a gun in a defensive manor (manner)' means.

Carry that a little further, I am 60
years old, that would mean I should have had a bout a 50% chance of
being in one of those situations. ... *My brother is older so while
it is higher (like about 75%) that one of us would have been involved
in such a situation. *It is not a question I have asked many people
but it would seem that I would have likely heard of at least one
personal friend or family member who was one of the people involved
and I know of none.

And yet you say below that you were involved in such a situation.

I have no proof but it sure looks like they are stretching same
facts really really hard to get the results they want. *Now if you
want to believe them, it is easy to do, if you don't want to believe
them, it is even easier, but for me, I would not consider their
numbers as reliable.

Yet by your own example below, you seem to contradict your own
suppostions.

* *I have had a gun used in an aggressive manor, used against me only
once. I was not armed and it ended nicely.

Do you believe that DGU (defensive gun use) only applies to those
faced by aggressors who display a gun?

Perhaps Meehan is one of those who if it hasn't happened to them,then it
doesn't happen to anyone else?

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But he says it _did_ happen to him but "it ended nicely".

Harry K