Clayton Cramer keeps a blog devoted to recording instances of guns used in self-defense. He's going gangbusters there. I'm really astonished at how many times these events are reported by the mainstream media, although usually only as a local story. Here's one example:
OXFORD, Ala. -- A convicted burglar sentenced in Calhoun County to 20 years in prison this week as a repeat offender had an unusual run-in with his victim.
The victim, Richard Bussey, says he drove up to his father's rural residence last summer and found a man loading furniture and other items into a pickup truck.
Bussey held a gun on the would-be thief and ordered him to return the furniture. Bussey didn't have a telephone, so he made 45-year-old Roy Andrew Gendron mow the lawn with a push mower until he could think of a plan to alert authorities.
Mr. Cramer is blogging two or three such incidents PER DAY of late. I imagine it's very difficult to get an accurate count of how often guns are used for defensive purposes, since most incidents will go unreported. Judging from the number of times these stories are carried by the media, though, it must be a large number.
Posted by Walter at February 10, 2004 08:38 AM