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- From: nlund@kodak.com
- Subject: Handguns are _good_ crime resistance tools!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.000505.24897@pixel.kodak.com>
- Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
- Summary: Handguns are _good_ crime resistance tools!
- Originator: lund@viper
- Sender: news@pixel.kodak.com
- Organization: US Militia
- References: <C1685L.Hvr@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.011047.22628@ida.liu.se>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:05:05 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1993Jan21.011047.22628@ida.liu.se> d90eridy@odalix.ida.liu.se (Erik Dyrelius) writes:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >But martial-art is a much better alternative than a handgun since fists
- >don't ususally kill by accident)
- >
- >(Don't flame me for this I just stated my opinion!)
-
- Not a flame, but according to Gary Kleck, _Point Blank_, Aldine De Gruyter,
- 1991 :
-
- "Victim resistance with guns is associated with lower
- rates of both victim injury and crime completion for
- robberies and assaults than any other victim action,
- including non-resistance."
-
- And that in the US, the number of defensive uses of guns per year are :
-
- Hart Poll, 1981, 644,000 handguns defenses per year (page 106)
- Mauser Poll, 1990, 691,000 gun defenses per year (page 107)
- Field Poll (California), 1978, 1.2 million handgun defenses per year (page 467)
- Time/CNN Poll, 1989, 908,061 handgun defenses per year (page 468)
-
- The 1.2 million figure is perhaps the most suspect, since it involves a
- projection of California statistics onto the rest of the US, but taken
- in concert, those four polls all seem to show that the use of guns to
- defend is not a trivial part of our nationwide crime prevention program.
-
- Sorry for invading your opinions with actual data, but we here in the
- US are currently observing the steady erosion of our 2nd amendment
- rights, and I feel that it is imperitave to try to shine light on
- this issue.
-
- I have set the Followup-To: talk.politics.guns, but really no follow up
- is needed. Just mosey on over there and watch for a while. Plenty of
- bandwith to snoop on. :-)
-
- Nate
- nlund@kodak.com
-