One criticism is that the gun-use questions are never asked unless the interviewee first indicates that he has "been a victim of a crime." If you have successfully AVOIDED being victimized by a criminal by employing your firearm, you are likely not to consider yourself a victim.
On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Guy Smith <g...@gunfacts.info> wrote: > Which brings up a question for which I have never found a reasonable answer. > > Kleck’s compiled a number of media and criminological surveys and, > aggregated, they were about 2.5M DGUs a year. Yet the National Crime > Victimization Survey comes up with much smaller numbers. > > The only critique I have heard of the NCVS is that it entails personal > engagement with the government (from their methodology report “all interviews > are done by telephone whenever possible, except for the first interview, > which is primarily conducted in person.”). What else explains the difference?
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