i'm not familiar with this person, gary clank. maybe you could fill me and the audience in this your answer. the research shows that for every use of one gun to commit a are three or four cases of guns being used in a crime.nse of or in self-defense. i will leave it at that. this study?ake know gary's work quite well. author of that claimed uses.llion defensive gun somehow managed to get on to the mentioned asn had thatg out endorsing number. but again, i think that the number has been criticized so powerfully. remember, one percent of americans are schizophrenic. if you call up and ask have you taken a trip in an alien year, about 1% of people answer that question yes. extrapolate to that actuallymillion people took a ride in an alien waseship this year but that the methodology that led to these exaggerated numbers. we do know there are, you know, is ink the best estimate the neighborhood of 47,000 times were used in confronting, again, 8/10 of 1% of the six million violent crime states. in the united it does happen, rarely. even