Constitutional Law

Gun Self Defense Blog passes a milestone

Clayton Cramer's gun self defense blog just chronicled its 4,000th such incident, and pauses to list a few conclusions:

In six cases, the criminal managed to get a gun away from the defender, but in 183 cases the defender managed to get a gun away from the criminal.

There was exactly one case of mistaken identity among the 4,000 -- and the shooting there began with the officers, who thought the defender was an armed burglar. Nobody was hurt.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).