He uses it only when he really needs it. So far, that's been three times. "Each time," Lee says, "the threat was ended the minute I presented the gun."
And those three times will appear nowhere in the statistics used to analyze "gun violence." These are biased by the requirement for the gun to actually be shot before the incident counts as a successful employment of a firearm in self-defense. Recall this next time you hear VPC or the Brady bunch bleating about guns being "more likely to be used on you than for you." It just ain't so.
Laws are not magic wands. That's why punishments are proscribed for violators. Rules, truly, are made to be broken.
A woman was killed on a nearby beach recently. A can of pepper spray, a beagle, or a gun would have saved her. Everyone needs to be accountable for their own defense.