*How about if all Christians bought ALL the guns? -=A=-
--- Victor Zalakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:44 AM 24/07/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/165476.txt > >This is an brief from the National Institute of Justice citing 1.5 > million > >uses of a gun for defense. This was also done by the very anti-gun > Clinton > >Administration. > > -- Actually this report suggest there were only 108,000 uses of a gun > for > defense. It cites the previous reference you supplied yesterday (Kleck > et > al) for the 1.5 million and suggests that that result is erroneous. > > > > Now there were some interesting statistics in this report. > > It would seem that gun ownership is not a widespread American virtue. > 'Only' 44 million Americans owned guns. > That's only 15 per cent. A significant minority. > > And what's more those 15% own an average of four guns each. > If ones for self defence, what are the second, third and fourth for? > > It appears that the "right to bear arms" story is breaking down. > > Note my distortion of the statistics here. I used the entire population > of > the USA to determine the percentage of gun owners, not the population of > > adults. It should be 25% of Americans own guns - still a minority. > > Here's some more gems from the report: > > o Gun ownership was highest among middle-aged, college- educated people > of > rural small-town America. > -- no surprise there :-) > > o Slightly more than half of all privately owned firearms were stored > unlocked; > o 16 percent of firearms were stored unlocked and loaded. > -- shame. And when their four year old child dies of a gun shot, what > then? > > o Evidence suggests that this survey and others like it overestimate the > > frequency with which firearms were used by private citizens to defend > against criminal attack. > -- This is not unexpected. If you own a gun and carry a gun, there would > be > some unconscious need to justify that position. Suddenly every passerby > looks like a mugger and every sly glance implies a potential rapist. > They > cite the example of one woman reporting 52 defensive gun uses during the > > year! Simply amazing. > > > o In 1994, about two-thirds of gunless adults were actively opposed to > having guns in their homes because they viewed guns as dangerous, > "immoral," or otherwise objectionable. > -- Perhaps there is hope? > > o This report also casts significant doubt on the 2.5 million defensive > gun > uses per year claimed by Kleck et al and suggest the much more > conservative > number of 108,000 defensive gun uses per year. > > o Regardless of which estimates one believes, only a small fraction of > adults have used guns defensively in 1994. The only question is whether > that fraction is 1 in 1,800 (as one would conclude from the NCVS) or 1 > in > 100 (as indicated by the NSPOF estimate based on Kleck and Gertz's > criteria). > -- Again this flys in the face of the argument that "we tote guns to > protect ourselves." You [that is Americans] don't. > > Thanks for this reference Travis. Very illuminating. > Victor. > > _______ > > > List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: > http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm > > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm ===== *High MORALE is the Index of effective Leadership. --------------********+********-------------------- Morale raises belief of the Leader in the follower, of the follower in the Leader, of each in themself, and both in the .....cause! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______ List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm
