On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:38:01PM -0700, Guy Smith wrote: > http://au.news.yahoo.com/060516/2/yzq6.html > > 1) Does anyone have a link to this report and/or a dissection of the > methodology?
Go to http://www.iansa.org/ to see more about the IANSA and they have links: their press release. press release: http://www.iansa.org/media/releases/IANSA-report-press-release.pdf report summary: http://www.iansa.org/media/releases/IANSA-report-summary.pdf report: http://www.iansa.org/members/IANSA-media-briefing-low-res.pdf > 2) Their basic claim is 1,000 people die each day around the globe from gun > fire. I'm keenly curious as to their inclusion or exclusion of suicides, > legal interventions, self defense, and government genocides. 560 criminal homicides 250 direct war deaths 140 suicides 50 accidents or undetermined intent (from their report - they cite the Small Arms Survey Yearbook which is published by an "independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms, and as a resource centre for governments, policy makers, researchers, and activists. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, international public policy, law, economics, development studies, conflict resolution, and sociology. The staff work closely with a worldwide network of researchers and partners." It may have a bias, as seen by the first sentence of its Introduction "The proliferation of small arms and light weapons represents a grave threat to human security." read more at http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about_us/introduction.htm > 3) "The perception that there is a difference between legal and illegal > weapons is a dangerous fallacy, the report said." Being out of context, I > hesitate to criticize, but this does sound like an irrational statement. Well - a number of the examples given on p. 2 of the report are shootings by police - criminal or in the line of duty. The report tries to show that there is no clear separation between war and crime, and that legal weapons flow into illegal ownership and use. --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ 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 Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
