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BamaD -> RE: International study of gun control finds strong evidence it works (6/14/2016 11:06:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Edwirdquote:
ORIGINAL: Kirata
The value of reduced firearms deaths at the price of rendering law-abiding citizens more subject to assaults, muggings and rapes, seems debatable.
Do you have the stats on non-gun owners having more assaults, muggings, and rapes visited upon them than gun owners? Or the former being less law-abiding than the latter?
Just curious.
I had this in mind:
Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010).
On the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.
A different issue is whether defensive uses of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun-wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was "used" by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies (Kleck, 1988; Kleck and DeLone, 1993; Southwick, 2000; Tark and Kleck, 2004).
Source: National Research Council
K.
Bloomberg has (although it has now been removed from his site) admitted to over 500,000 defensive firearms uses per year. Considering his groups inclination to cook the books against gun owners this has to be considered the absolute mininum number. It should also be remembered that the number of defensive uses is grossly underreported. If the badguy sees you are armed ans runs screaming into the darkness what is the point of reporting it? Actuall occurance, not a what if fantasy.
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