Some brief internet searching turns up that there are about 300 million people in America and 100 million households. So 1% of all households have to shoot their guns at bad people every year. And likewise 1% of all households have a robber come into their house and shoot guns at them every year. I dunno about that. If that is true then damn this country is like the wild west and how the heck does anyone live to be 100 years old, everyone would surely have been shot and killed by then and had to shoot one other guy.

If true, the only way I can rationalize these numbers is that some areas in America are like having gangster wars and they keep shooting each at each other every year, and much of these people miss each other and survive to shoot some more, so it bloats up the numbers.

Some brief internet searching turns up that there are about 300 million people in America and 100 million households. So 1% of all households have to shoot their guns at bad people every year. And likewise 1% of all households have a robber come into their house and shoot guns at them every year. I dunno about that. If that is true then damn this country is like the wild west and how the heck does anyone live to be 100 years old, everyone would surely have been shot and killed by then and had to shoot one other guy.

If true, the only way I can rationalize these numbers is that some areas in America are like having gangster wars and they keep shooting each at each other every year, and much of these people miss each other and survive to shoot some more, so it bloats up the numbers.

The vast majority of DGUs (Defensive Gun Uses) end with no shots being fired at all.  More times than not, the mere presentation of a firearm is sufficient to end the threat.

That's one reason the estimate of DGUs in the US is so hard to nail down.  If no shots were fired, and no harm done, the gun owner isn't likely to spend the time to file a report.  The attacker is very unlikely to file a report, too.

So, to envision the estimated number of households using guns for defense "shoot their guns at bad people" isn't an accurate picture.