A well-managed safety program at any company is a prime analogy.
Safety is an intangible asset to the company because the accidents are prevented before they happen, thus the focus on an accident is never needed. Hence, the accident never makes the "news".
A well-managed safety program reports everything to include near misses. Near miss reporting allows some indication of how effective the program is in accident prevention. If the only thing to ever be reported were the accidents, the program would appear to be failing.
Self-defense is the same thing. A crime prevented because a gun owner drew a firearm is not "news worthy" cause no one was killed. The vast majority of these "near-misses" never even get reported to the police.
News reports therefore focus almost exclusively on criminal misuse of firearms, and create the false impression that firearms and crime are directly linked.
Many CEO's tend to over look the benefit of a safety program because they cannot see it on a spreadsheet. They only tend to notice its necessity only after an accident, and attempt to manage by reaction. Rarely does this approach address the root cause.
In the same manner, gun-o-phobes cannot "see" the crimes that are prevented, so they disregard the preventative instrument. They then attempt to solve the problem by knee jerk reactions (manage by reaction) that never address the root cause.
Just in case your still interested, here are some more current ones.
I will assume current by reasonable standards would be within the last 30 days.
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/2422751/detail.htmlhttp://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/08/05/48661.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+Newshttp://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/081403_NW_atmrobber.htmlhttp://www.pantagraph.com/stories/080903/new_20030809015.shtmlhttp://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=59620http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/6485706.htmhttp://www.click10.com/news/2373119/detail.htmlhttp://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2043526http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1392944&nav=0RaPHLMOhttp://www.gomemphis.com/mca/todays_editorial/article/0,1426,MCA_537_2152471,00.html