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Absolutely. As with any honest study, in order to be legitimate, both sides need to be examined.

And then - "[Y]our possession or use of the weapon might be a matter of greater concern to the cops than whatever the intruder or criminal you were repelling was up to. They’ll doubtless never lay hands on him; you are right there, for any investigation and harassment the cops might want to call forth. Many gun owners or gun users might see little good and much possible bad arising from calling the cops after a DGU incident, and thus many or even most would never make a police blotter, never make a newspaper."

And here is the nuance that even our exalted congress critters deliberately ignore - "Currently, the federal government’s Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is restricted by Congress from using tax money to promote gun control (although not from conducting research into gun-related violence)."
Not only the educated illiterates in the US Congress, but the general public, but also a number of individuals here on RP that can be easily labeled that way.
I would advise and highly recommend for anyone that has a tendency to have foot-in-mouth disease, read the reporter's statement a few times.