(January 13, 2023 at 4:22 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(January 13, 2023 at 9:13 am)GUBU Wrote: No I don't think it is bad, it demonstrably is bad. None of his findings are replicable.
But... his findings have been replicated:
Quote:https://www.owl232.net/papers/guncontrol.htm
Fifteen surveys, excluding the one discussed in the following paragraph, have been conducted since 1976, yielding estimates of between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses per year, the average estimate being 1.8 million.
‘Defensive gun use’ is not the same as ‘lives saved by guns’.
Boru
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