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Originally Posted by shouldazagged
My view exactly. If he runs away leaking, that's fine with me. Should make him easier for the police to track.
If he runs away without my having to shoot him, that's better still. Unlikely, but preferable.
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The vast majority of DGUs (defensive gun uses) in the US *do not* involve a shot being fired. This according to The National Crime Victimization Survey, the gold standard survey for criminology statistics. John Lott estimates that the percentage of DGUs that involve zero shots fired is in the mid to high 90 percents. In other words, *if* you ever have to use a gun in self defense, there's around a 2-5 percent chance you'll have to actually drop the hammer.
Those are the empirical numbers on the issue.