Meaning of DGU | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of defensive gun use.

abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Examples

“Perhaps we should think of two acquaintances, both with some criminal history, getting into a drunken fight, both producing guns, one ending up dead or wounded, the other ending up as a “DGU” statistic – but both of them entangled in a scenario that would have produced only injuries if neither had carried a gun.”

“Good guys with guns stop at least 1.8 million crimes per year according to surveys on DGU (Defensive Gun Use) data. But Kirk never argued that the presence of good guys with guns makes him bulletproof.”

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