Reply #13: Any action along a spectrum from displaying a gun to firing it [View All]

[slackmaster]

As long as that action is lawful and done by an innocent person in defense of one's life, health, or the life or health of another innocent person (on edit:) or property.

The simplest form of defensive gun use, i.e. chasing off an assailant by simply displaying a gun, would be unlikely to be reported in the news, or to appear in police records in many places even when the incident is reported to police. Nobody knows how often that happens. IMO arguments about the frequency of those de minimis DGUs serve no useful purpose.