[Filmatic]

2.8% is even worse than I’d have guessed.

2.8% of an already rare event is technically non-imaginary, but also definitely rounds down to imaginary.

[edit] on top of that, is it even a one-digit percentage of that 2.8% of a rare event in which having a round chambered made any difference? Yet there are people confidently posting as if it’d be absurd to carry without a round chambered. That’s plainly nuts.

[rascul]

That's only active shooter events. There are other cases where armed civilians have stopped a crime. I don't have such data readily available, though.

[JKCalhoun]

Only an anecdote here: a guy I know claimed to have "defensively" used his gun. When I pressed him, it turned out that he drew his gun on a guy "that looked like a dirtbag" when he was staying at a motel.

From his point of view his life would have been threatened (he might not be alive today!) had he not presented his firearm.