wacki
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What is the response to this? I have a friend that keeps telling me this.
"guns kill more people they werent supposed to kill, than stop or defend against crime"
What is the response to this? I have a friend that keeps telling me this.
Gary Kleck describes how he became a gun control skeptic: (Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?)
http://www.guncite.com/journals/tennmed.html
[Subsequent research] has caused me to move beyond even the skeptic position. I now believe that the best currently available evidence, imperfect though it is (and must always be), indicates that general gun availability has no measurable net positive effect on rates of homicide, suicide, robbery, assault, rape, or burglary in the U[nited] S[tates].
Gary Kleck (born March 2, 1951) is a criminologist at Florida State University who is a leading expert on the links between guns, violence and gun control laws in the United States.
He has done statistical analysis of crime in the United States and argues that while in 1993 there were about four hundred thousand crimes committed with guns, there were approximately 2.5 million crimes in which victims used guns for self-protection.
In 1993, Kleck won the Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology for his book, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America.
What is the response to this? I have a friend that keeps telling me this.
guns kill
NSPOF survey 1.48 million people defended themsleves with guns
against crime 4.7 million times in 1994 (the year of the survey).
guns kill more people they werent supposed to kill, than stop or defend against crime
"if firearms are so dangerous, then you obviously agree that firearms safety should be taught in schools, right?"
Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of FirearmsQuote:
NSPOF survey 1.48 million people defended themsleves with guns
against crime 4.7 million times in 1994 (the year of the survey).
That is very interesting!
Can you cite that reference? I believe you, but I always want to see the facts for myself.
Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms
Note the authors, Phillip Cook and Jens Ludwig, are antis.
Although training programs usually include
suggestions on how to store guns safely, it does
not appear that trainees are paying attention. More
than half (56 percent) of owners had received some
form of "formal" training from the military, law
enforcement, National Rifle Association, National
Safety Council, or other source. As a group, owners
who received such training were no less likely than
others to keep guns loaded and unlocked. This
surprising result is consistent with other recent
studies.[12]
guns kill more people they werent supposed to kill, than stop or defend against crime