Subject: Re: Want To Protect Your Family?
These surveys are fiction, BHM. People overstate their DGU, either inadvertently or intentionally misreporting their actual experience - for the same reasons that make other "survey" analyses of social phenomena unreliable. People who own guns want to think they're useful (social desirability bias). They want other people to think they're useful (strategic response bias). - albaby

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And people against private ownership of guns want to think that guns cause criminal activity (accidents aside). This is something we will never agree on.