[Mrs. Don-o]

Anybody have any idea whether these stats are accurate?

Anybody know if the way this Kit Daniels is analyzing the stats, is accurate? (I mean, I know his simple math with the ratio was accurate, but is he comparing the right things?)

Interesting if true.

[Tax-chick]

Just in the excerpt, I’m seeing some funny use of stats. Comparing “people shot and killed” with “crimes stopped” implies that the two sets don’t overlap. However, if someone walked into my house tonight intending to rob, rape, and/or kill, and Anoreth shot and killed him, we have an incident in both categories.

[Tax-chick]

Also, a significant number of shot-and-killed incidents are suicides, which don’t fit into a crime/prevention framework at all.

[RC one]

Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology,[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.

A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun "for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere."

Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 such incidents per year.

This figure excludes all "military service, police work, or work as a security guard."[19]

* A 1994 survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans use guns to frighten away intruders who are breaking into their homes about 498,000 times per year.[20]

* A 1982 survey of male felons in 11 state prisons dispersed across the U.S. found:[21]

• 34% had been "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim"

• 40% had decided not to commit a crime because they "knew or believed that the victim was carrying a gun"

• 69% personally knew other criminals who had been "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim"[22]

[hosepipe]

UNLESS you take guns from the decent people THEN... few crimes are spoiled..
LAck of guns INCREASES CRIME...

[bobby.223]

2.5 MILLION a year? That works out to one a heck of a lot just per day also!

[PressurePoint]

It’s impossible to guess how many crimes never even start because the perp fears the potential victim “might” have a gun. It’s the possibility of a gun that stops them. Not necessarily the display of one.

[Gritty]

Individual crime is one thing. Criminal government is another. So far, the former has been the big concern.

However, the latter is now emerging into view after many, many years of dormancy.