When you ask a gun owner if they use their gun to deter crime, it seems respondents would realize their aggregated answers will be used by those making policy arguments. This alone would seem to make it difficult to evaluate any survey including that question. Perhaps there is some way of accounting for this that I am not aware of?
Patrick McCann ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Dickens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 2:06 pm Subject: Re: Lott > >While she was Attorney General, Janet Reno commissioned a study > to try to > >prove that private firearms ownership does not deter crime. The > commission > >concluded nonetheless that Americans use firearms .5 to 1.5 > million times a > >year to deter crimes. Given the obvious bias of the study, this > conclusion > >makes the Lott/Kleck numbers quite credible. > > Can you provide a citation to this study and its methodology? I've > never heard of it. If it used survey methods it could have naively > produced the same results no matter what the intent of the author. > - - Bill Dickens > > William T. Dickens > The Brookings Institution > 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW > Washington, DC 20036 > Phone: (202) 797-6113 > FAX: (202) 797-6181 > E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AOL IM: wtdickens > > >
