More Americans protect themselves with guns than you think
By Clayton E. Cramer
The Washington Times
Thursday, February 9, 2012
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While the results from studies vary, the numbers are large. The National Crime Victimization Survey, for various procedural reasons, is at the low end, showing 108,000 such cases a year (although this was some years back, when crime rates were higher than now). The widely reported Kleck/Gertz study, which has its own set of problems, showed a range of 830,000 to 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year. Other studies have fallen solidly in the middle, with hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses per year.
Our study examines a variety of incident types: concealed-weapon permit holders (285 accounts); home invasions (1,227 incidents); residential burglaries (488). There are categories that we would never have thought were all that common: 172 incidents where people defended themselves from animal attacks (some wild, some dogs gone wild); 34 were incidents where pizza delivery drivers defended themselves from robbery.
Clayton E. Cramer teaches history at the College of Western Idaho and is co-author of “Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance From Citizens and Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie” (Cato Institute, 2006).
true ... I forgot, they don't listen to facts. 
would be good.