> > Concerning "the Justice Department has reported that assault weapons > >represented 1.2 percent of the guns used in crimes in 2002 down from 3.6 > >percent in 1995," I wonder whether the 1.2% represent only AWs defined by > >the federal gun control law or whether they include the functionally > >similar guns. > > More likely, if the usual dance is being done here, the phrase "used in > crime" have nothing to do with the actual use of a gun at all. For > example, after the cops break in the door of a counterfeiter, child > molester, meth cooker, or whatever, and take the residents off in > manacles, they search the building. Any firearm found is logged and > eventually makes its way into a report as a "gun used in crime" -- even > though the gun was never actually involved in printing bogus hundreds, > abducting little boys, or titrating Clorox into Robitussin.
I don't have the stats handy, and don't know if the cited study compared them adequately, but does the decline in AW "criminal" use mirror the overall violent crime reductions since 1991? I general reduction in crime and violent crime in particular would look like a reduction in AW crime as well. -------------------- Guy Smith Silicon Strategies Marketing 630 Taylor Avenue Alameda, CA 94501 510-521-4477 (T) 510-217-9693 (F) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.SiliconStrat.com _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
