--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
BINGO!
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