DGU

See also: dgu

English

Noun

DGU (countable and uncountable, plural DGUs)

1. Initialism of defensive gun use.
   • 2012 July 30, David Frum, “Do guns make us safer?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 May 2022:

     Perhaps we should think of two acquaintances, both with some criminal history, getting into a drunken fight, both producing guns, one ending up dead or wounded, the other ending up as a “DGU” statistic – but both of them entangled in a scenario that would have produced only injuries if neither had carried a gun.

   • 2025 September 12, Brandon Smith, “Retarded Or Evil? Leftist Arguments Justifying The Murder Of Charlie Kirk”, in Alt-Market.us‎^[2], archived from the original on 7 October 2025:

     Good guys with guns stop at least 1.8 million crimes per year according to surveys on DGU (Defensive Gun Use) data. But Kirk never argued that the presence of good guys with guns makes him bulletproof.

Anagrams

• UDG, dug, gud