(May 31, 2023 at 1:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:He would have us believe that the number of defensive gun uses in the US exceeds that number of gun crimes. That’s absurd on the face of it.I thought that was not even up to debate. There have been at least fifteen different studies concluding that:
http://www.owl232.net/papers/guncontrol.htm Wrote: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.There are around 400'000 gun crimes per year in the US, so there are at least 2 times as many defensive gun uses.
This is from your link (you should probably have read the entire thing):
Quote:Kleck’s statistics imply that defensive gun uses outnumber crimes committed with guns by a ratio of about 3:1.
Boru
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