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The Kleck-Gertz DGU (defensive gun use) study estimated that there are between 2.1 and 2.5 million DGUs a year in the U.S. The Ludwig-Cook study came up with 1.46 million. So let’s split the difference and call it 1.88 million DGUs per year.

In the K-G article Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun, 15.7 percent of people who had a DGU reckoned they almost certainly saved a life. Ignoring the ‘probably’ and ‘might have’ saved a life categories for simplicity, 15.7 percent of 1.88 million gives us 295,160 lives saved annually.

i'm all for any study there the word "reckoned" and a key number on which the study is based are used together.  i'm sure bubba and wilbur didn't inflate the importance of their defensive gun use when they were polled for this unbiased study.  whatever they reckoned must be acurate.  i would like to know if protecting the value of one's meth lab from some tweaked out redneck with a whiffle ball  bat was included in the savings.  

i reckon that i'm going to find a study that says gun use saves the US 100 trillion dollars a month.  i'm going to mosey on over the some nra site and see what i can find.  i reckon i'll be back here with the results.