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How many violent home invasions are reported per year?

I was curious too. The FBI provides nationwide numbers for 2019: ~268k robberies, of which 16% occurred at a residence, so ~43k. [1]

The National Institute for Mental Health says that ~24k suicides are inflicted with with firearms in 2018. [2]

Hard to figure out how many robberies might have been "resolved" by an armed homeowner, but I note the FBI says that there were only 334 "Justifiable Homicides" by civilians using firearms in 2019. [3]

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... [2] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml [3] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Thanks for looking up these numbers. I have looked in to it before, and found [0], which implies about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. Of course, not every self-defense use involves firing a shot, and not every shot fired ends up with a death.

0:https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf

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