CNN Early Start With Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett June 4, 2024 09:37:00
Separate facts from fiction. what have you found? >> so, this is a really hard number to pin down because police do not track this as a stand-alone stand-alone category. that gives rise to contentious debate. gun activists like to say there are 2 1/2 million defenses of gun use which includes brandishing or self-defense shooting. academics find a lot of problems with those figures, and they tend to rely on a survey of crime victims that's done by the federal government twice a year. so it's really recent. according to that survey, there are 70,000 incidents of defensive gun use every year. aga...