Self-defense justifies only 3 percent of concealed-carry shootings.

Evidence

Gun-rights advocates use self-defense as the main justification for laws granting individuals the right to carry concealed handguns in public. However, this justification does not fare well when compared with how concealed handguns are actually used. An extensive analysis of concealed-carry shootings found that only 3% were lawful self-defense (Violence Policy Center, 2015). … Rather, most of the guns were used for criminal homicides, murder-suicides, and suicides. These findings indicate that carrying concealed weapons risks lethal violence rather than preventing it. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1207

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