True DGUs - How Many Are There Each Year
Posted on the 06 June 2012 by Mikeb302000
Lots of people have debated this 2.5 million claim. But one part of the argument I've never seen is this.
Some
percentage of DGU incidents is not defensive and legitimate. If the
bad guy is dead, it's easy for the shooter to shade the circumstances
enough in his direction to make it legit. If the bad guy lives, people
tend not to believe what he has to say, he is a bad guy after all.
This goes double for those supposed brandishings in which the bad guy runs away.
So,
I take the lowest estimate out there, which is about 50,000 or 60,000
and cut it in half. That's what you've got for true DGUs, and that
corresponds perfectly with what we read in the news.