The IANSA claims 1,000 deaths per day from firearms. This is a large number, and a "round" one. My statistical training makes me suspicious of "round numbers". But delving more deeply into the individual numbers which make up this total would take some work.
Fortunately I was told about a publication which has done this. This is: Global Deaths from Firearms: Searching for Plausible Estimates David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant and Joanne D. Eisen 8 Texas Review of Law and Politics 114 (Fall 2003, No. 1). pp 113-141 The journal is on the web at http://www.trolp.org/ but doesn't have articles available. The journal is likely to be available through many university libraries, and this article is available at: http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/Global-Deaths-from-Firearms.pdf This article gives reasons to be suspicious of the death numbers claimed. --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.
