This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, May 10, 2012.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The shooting death of Trayvon Martin has, appropriately,

are not rekindled some arguments over the range of acceptable behavior when we defend ourselves.

Following an April event on Stand Your Ground Laws, the Cato Institute's Tim Lynch sat down

with Masad Ayub, firearms trainer and author of In the Gravist Extreme.

You've written that most articles and books on self-protection say that guns should not be

kept for self-defense

because you're more likely to have a family member

killed by accident than you are to shoot a criminal.

And besides, an intruder can take it away from you

and kill you with it.

You say these arguments are mostly propaganda. Why do you say that?

First it's very rare to actually find a case where the bad guy took the gun away from the

armed citizen and used it against them.

There are at least as many, if not more, cases where the armed citizen has disarmed the criminal

and either put them to flight, capture them, or shot and neutralize them.

The argument of you are 42 times more likely

to lose a member of the family to gunfire

because you have a gun in the home

has been debunked by far better statisticians and sociologists that I

but I think you'll find in any statistics class.

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