Lifetime and Past-Year Defensive Gun Use
Objective:
In this survey study of 3000 adults with firearm access, most (91.7%) reported no lifetime history of defensive gun use, whereas many reported lifetime gun violence exposure. Individuals exposed to gun violence and who carried firearms more frequently and stored firearms loaded and unlocked were more likely to report prior defensive gun use. To examine the frequency of DGU relative to gun violence exposure (GVE) in a sample of firearm owners drawn from a nationally representative sample of US adults.
Project Status:
Completed
Principal Investigators:
Michael D. Anestis, PhD; Kimberly Burke, PhD; Sultan Altikriti, PhD