Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

How on Earth can Kleck determine how man people would have died if they hadn’t had a gun?

As being approximately equal to the number of people who have actually seen the attacker and think having a gun saved their life.

Kleck claims to have interviewed 5000 people (and adult males are grossly over-represented). Even allowing for the most generous statistical extrapolation, concluding that there were 300 000 lives saved is a base supposition.

There are - very roughly - 1.2 million violent crimes reported in the US every year. The notion that there are more than twice that many unreported crimes which involve firearms is untenable. You (and Kleck) are describing a dystopian nightmare that would make Mad Max quake in his motorcycle boots.

Boru