Dan Minette wrote:
...
> > "Mortality studies such as ours do not include cases in which burglars
> or
> > intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display of a
> firearm.
> > Cases in which would-be intruders may have purposely avoided a house
> known
> > to be armed are also not identified.A complete determination of firearm
> > risks versus benefits would require that these figures be known."
>
> And the best way to show how this is true is to show how the % of people
> who are victims of crimes and own guns are much lower than the % of people
> who simply own guns. If owning guns is as much of a deterrant as this
> author suggests, than one should see a significantly lower crime rate for
> households that have guns vs. households that don't.
That's certainly a good way to do the study. But one
should control for the amount of crime in the neighborhood as
well, since it could well be that gun ownership is higher in
high crime neighborhoods.
---David
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