On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:36:40 -0500, "LibtardStupid" ihbfd@lhu wrote:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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You are safer, period. Just showing a gun will head off the majority
of perp actions. They thrive on the unarmed and frozen frames of the
unwashed.

I don't remember where I saw the statistics, but supposedly there are
millions of unreported incidents per year that starts with a confrontation,
a handgun is produced by the intended victim and the perp runs away. No
shots fired, no police reports. If I ever have to produce a firearm I hope
it goes that way, I hate cleaning guns! I know, I just won't bring any of
those dirty cartridges!

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

Introduction

There are approximately two million defensive gun uses (DGU's) per
year by law abiding citizens. That was one of the findings in a national
survey conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist
in 1993. Prior to Dr. Kleck's survey, thirteen other surveys indicated a
range of between 800,000 to 2.5 million DGU's annually. However these
surveys each had their flaws which prompted Dr. Kleck to conduct his own
study specifically tailored to estimate the number of DGU's annually.

Subsequent to Kleck's study, the Department of Justice sponsored a
survey in 1994 titled, Guns in America: National Survey on Private
Ownership and Use of Firearms (text, PDF). Using a smaller sample size
than Kleck's, this survey estimated 1.5 million DGU's annually.

There is one study, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS),
which in 1993, estimated 108,000 DGU's annually. Why the huge
discrepancy between this survey and fourteen others?


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