"Ed Huntress" wrote in message news:...

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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Few police have ever been shot at

Forty-two were killed with handguns in 2005; 8 were killed with other
guns.

50 police out of how many hundred thousand? More dangerous being a
farmer.

That was the number killed, not the number shot at. Most criminals don't
hit what they're aiming at.

DOJ says that, in one year (early '90s), over 1,400 police officers were
injured in firearms assaults and 67, in that year, were killed with
firearms while responding to a crime. Overall statistics, including cops,
say that the ratio of victims hit with a gunshot to those shot at was 3:8.
So something like 3,000 police officers, very roughly, are shot at in the
course of a year.

That should be, the ratio of victims hit with a gunshot to those shot at
*and missed* is 3:8. Discount current figures based on the number of deaths
(50 versus 67), and the very conservative number shot at is around 3,000.

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Ed Huntress