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To: TimF who wrote (869084)	6/29/2015 6:53:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579686

There is just now way that it was anywhere close to that number, Tim. Remember, this was supposed to be per year. While there might be some concentration, it isn't going to account for all that much.Even the most concentrated would still only be a few incidents over a lifetime. There just has never been that degree of violence. Besides, only a fraction of the population had a gun at that time. According to Gallup 54% of households. According to the Census Bureau there were about 97 million households. gallup.com census.gov That means 54 million households with a gun of any type on the property. That means a little under 5% of the households who owned guns in 1994 had a member use a gun defensively. This number is conservative. Handguns are the most suitable for self-defense and even among gun owning households only a fraction have one or more handguns. In 1999, the percentage of gun owners who owned a gun for hunting was 49% it was likely over 50% in 1994. pewresearch.org Certainly some of the hunters could have been in a position to use a gun defensively. But certainly not all. So the number of households in 1994 who had a member use a gun defensively would be somewhere between 5% and 10%. Per year. Maybe in Yemen. Not in the US.