https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/guns-save-lives-cdc-never-publicized/
"The final adjusted prevalence of 1.24% therefore implies that in an average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for self-defense. This estimate, based on an enormous sample of 12,870 cases (unweighted) in a nationally representative sample, strongly confirms the 2.5 million past-12-months estimate obtained Kleck and Gertz (1995)….CDC’s results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by criminals. "
Or
https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/20/cdc-provides-more-evidence-that-plenty-o