Gun Control Reform Activism

The "more than two million" figure likely comes from the research of criminologist Gary Kleck, whose claim that up to 2.45 million defensive gun uses occur each year has been promoted on NRA News and throughout right-wing media.

There are a couple other dgu studies, mainly rightwing gunnutted, which contend similar in the millions, while fbi dgu's amount to around 150,000 yearly;
.. Kleck's 'DGU' (defensive gun use) study involved approx 5,000 phone calls randomly across america, maybe to gun owners only (culled), which produced the whopping total of about 56 defensive gun uses, of which about 12 where someone was wounded & two were killed. About a third (~18) were just 'verbal' such as go away or I'll get my gun, iow no gun was produced. Some of these were likely phantom dgus, since when extrapolated out, the woundings amounted to around 200,000 gunshot wounds, whereas for that year only ~100,000 medcare center/hospital admissions for gunshot wounds were recorded - what they do? heal themselves?