----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Zalakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [RR] Bowling for Colombine
> 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. > Fortunatly, here in the United States, minority groups' rights are still protected and not stripped away. Geno Plares _______ 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
