corwin
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thanks. :thumbsup:
this is the kind of resource that I was looking for. I like info such as this:
I suspected the 2 million number mentioned by the FBI included all "job-related" incidents; not that they didn't hide the inference very well.
The salient point in these kind of arguments--well, as gun-rights advocates tend to point out--is that related to "civilian home defense." Or "civilian personal protection."
I don't think 162,000 is an insignificant number across the entire population--but also at 0.5% of the sample size (and the entire population of then 306million), using numbers reported by the FBI seems....intellectually dishonest. It does a disservice to the argument, if you ask me.
You're quoting the wrong number if you want to go against the FBI numbers...that was only where they believed someone "almost certainly would have been killed" if they "had not used a gun for protection."
A better comparison would be, from the same study...
A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 3.5% of households had members who had used a gun "for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere." Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 1,029,615 such incidents per year. This figure excludes all "military service, police work, or work as a security guard."
So, over 1 million per year...still lower than the other number but even more significant.
