I'm aware of the abortion literature; it's fairly compelling.

However, have you ever found a study that is able to address the "stranger danger" issue with credibly accurate numbers? I've looked multiple times and not found anything. I do recall finding a very left-leaning study at one point that concluded that if you assume that the only instances of defense with a gun were those reported to the police and coded in such a way that the authors could easily find it, then it was low. And a very right-leaning one that surveyed gun owners and asked them, sans detail or verifiability, and concluded that it was high.

But I've never found a study that was able to show that the numbers it came up with were reliable. Have you? If so, can you please point me at it?

(There are other arguments for (and against) gun control for which evidence is better. But this *particular* one is one I keep trying to get good data on and keep not finding anything.)