[xzins]

NORC is survey data.

They compare killings in self defense by women who have handguns with killings of all women by handguns!!! Is that slanted or what?

Properly, they'd be comparing killings by women who do own handguns against murders of women who do have handguns. (Women who do have handguns will effectively protect themselves at X rate.) Then they'd compare that with killings by women who don't have handguns with murders of women who don't have handguns.(Women who don't have handguns effectively protect themselves at X rate.)

I believe they'll discover that women who do have handguns protect themselves at a much greater rate than those women who do not have handguns.

[inquest]

I think we can rightfully assume that the "study" presented is the worst shot they could fire at us. Therefore, anything they don't attempt to refute can be regarded has having been conceded by them. They don't attempt to refute the fact that women (people in general, acutally) are safer with a gun than without; that there's no truth whatever to the myth that having a gun will put a person in significantly greater danger because the assailant might grab it from him (unless the intended victim has an IQ of under 70); and that guns pose no sigificant risk to life or limb from being fired "accidentally" (again, unless we're talking about someone with a low IQ or a high BAL).