"The document "Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence" reports "studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was used by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies."
Via Newsmax. ![](http://images.nap.edu/openbook/18319/png/R1.png)