At 12:57 AM -0500 3/23/04, Miike wrote:
> "Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as
> many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. This
> means that each year, firearms are used more than 60 times more often to
> protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives, according to
>Northwest
> University School of Law and the National Safety Council".
>
> Does anyone know of a site available on the internet where Northwest
> University School of Law and/or the National Safety Council. has made
>those "claims"?
The author was referring to the 1995 Kleck and Gertz paper, which was
printed in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Northwestern
University School of Law. I advised him that his citation was misleading,
although I suspect the error was unintentional.
The reference to the NSC is his authority for the data on the number of
times guns are used criminally to kill.
> My OE e-mail version of the article contains numerous question marks. Is
>that a
> form of editorializing?
It indicates that the writer used special characters (e.g., curly quotes,
dashes, fractions) from a character set proprietary to his computer
platform, and that you don't share his platform.
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