Posted by
JR47:
The point that the "study" was done "a while back" isn't helpful.
Why so?
Would conclusions about military training during the time of the Draft perhaps sway the numbers?
Most probably not. The study came out in 2006. The draft was ended in 1973, but the numbers of people drafted each year fell precipitously after 1969.
Excusing a sub-standard sampling as a "budgetary" issue isn't science, it's politics.
It is clear that you know little or nothing about how investigations such as that one are designed, proposed, authorized, budgeted, conducted, and/or approved for release.
What is your basis for describing the study as having been based on "a sub-standard sampling"?
What kind of "politics" do you suspect?
That "study" is useless for anything but talking about a statistical sample of 43 people out of literally hundreds of thousands. Seems more like manipulation than science.
Had the plan for the study been challenged as "useless for anything but talking about a statistical sample of 43 people", it would not have been approved.
"Hundreds of thousands"? Get real. In the last
ten years there have been 15,000 officers injured.
It would appear that, other than the red herring of the FBI "study" of a meaninglessly tiny group,...
"Red herring"? What is it that leads you to asset that the report was intended to mislead or distract?
"Meaningless"? Well, it tells us something about a scientifically chosen sample, however small.
What sample size do you think would be appropriate? How did you come up with your number?
I would also point out that there are also many veterans in the CC community. Using the standards set by that tiny study, that would leave them at least as well qualified as the criminals.
Have 40% of the CCW carriers received formal training? Do 80% practice regularly? Possible, but I really doubt it.
And irrelevant, anyway.
Yet, the fact remains that criminals aren't regularly visiting ranges,...
Did you miss "informal settings like trash dumps, rural woods, back yards and "street corners in known drug-trafficking areas"?
Yet, they still manage to hit. On the other hand, so, according to magazines like the American Rifleman, or SWAT, do those "untrained" citizens. More and more today, it seems.
Keep in mind that those American Rifleman reports, unlike the FBI study, are limited almost entirely to accounts of incident in which the defenders succeed.