Kasz216 on 19 March 2008
| kenzomatic said: 90% of all violent crime in the U.S. does not involve any gun of any type. * 1998 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Less than 1% of all guns will ever be used in the commission of any type of crime (much less violent crime). *FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994 Two-thirds of the people that die each year from gunfire are criminals shooting other criminals. * FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994 Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 per day. * Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ. Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminals) is shed. Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes per day are Prevented just by showing a handgun. In less than 0.9% of the time is the gun ever actually ever fired. * Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ. Every year, people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times- more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. * Fall 1995, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology This means that, each year, firearms are used 65 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. |
To be fair Kleck had some methodoligy problems. Nowhere as badly as say MCdowall who said the gun had to
A) Be fired
and
B) Before it was fired you had to be physically hit otherwise you were the criminal.
But still somewhat flawed as all you had to do was feel threatened. So if someone just felt paranoid and pulled a gun on someone that would count.
