Perhaps a better number might be the proportion of homicides due to DGUs --
various sources (Kleck, Time magazine) have suggested that the FBI under
reports justified/excusable homicides at around 3% of homicides when it is more
likely around 13%.
Knowing this number state by state might answer many interesting question.
Phil
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:24 PM, C D Tavares <c...@libertyhaven.com>
wrote:
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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