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In <CzEKBv.6K0@zadall.com> mel@zadall.com (Melanie Arabsky) writes:

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>>If I am facing an intruder, I don't want him to have
>>a sporting chance.  I want the upper hand.  If he's got a gun and I don't,
>>that's not very sporting either.  

>Ok - there's a can of worms.  Any real stats on how many guns are
>*actually* used in legit self-defense??  I would especially like to
>stack that number up next to how many accidental deaths attributed to
>guns (I would both include and exclude deaths caused intentionally for 
>other comparisons).  For my purposes I would like to consider handguns 
>only (so people protecting themselves or livestock against wild
>animals don't count here - unless they are doing it with a handgun).

Ok, here's what I'm aware of.  According to Stats Can there were about 
1,600 people killed with a firearm in 1992.  Of those about 5% were 
accidents.  In a study done by Gary Mauser of SFU he found that there 
were about 60,000 uses of a firearm in a legitimate self-defence 
situation that was related to civilians only (this does not include the 
police or military).  Of those, half were against humans.  I don't think 
you can validly just screen for handguns in Canada since the carry 
restrictions on them are so high.
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