Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Very true, but that also holds true for shots fired by police. With several dozen rounds fired for every bad guy police shoot, they have to go somewhere (statistically speaking, of course).

On the other hand, US stats never show how many attempted home robberies are foiled by gun-wielding homeowners. I am personally familiar with three separate cases in which that happened. The police were called, and did file reports, but nobody ever includes those. How many each year? I have no clue.