...
The thing that makes me extremely skeptical of these numbers is that
I don't know a single gun owner who carries his/her gun outside the
house unless the trip is to use the gun (to hunt or for target
shooting). The vast majority of crimes against individuals are not
perpetrated against p
--- Bob Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... but that's different than economics where experts
> can't even agree what will happen if you do simple things like change
> interest rates.
Would economists not agree that holding everything else constant, if market
interests rates are lowered by
It's my understanding that Kleck uses FBI crime statistics in his
computations.
Those are estimates of the active use of firearms to deter crimes. It
appears that the ownership of firearms also passively discourages crimes:
while the US has a hire rate of public crime than in Europe, the Euro
In a message dated 2/5/03 5:59:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I agree that there is a disparity in life experience on this list. In my
>mere 32 years of life, I have met dozens of people who illegally carry
>concealed weapons.
I know a few people who do this too, even though I've spent much o
In a message dated 2/5/03 3:18:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>While she was Attorney General, Janet Reno commissioned a study to try
>to
>>prove that private firearms ownership does not deter crime. The commission
>
>>concluded nonetheless that Americans use firearms .5 to 1.5 million times
--- Gil Guillory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"One man I know was convicted of tax evasion, was on
the lam for almost 2 years with his wife (part of the
time in a cabin in the woods with his wife, reading
Bohm-Bawerk and Mises by night and hunting by
day)"
Hunting or poaching?
How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
One possibility would be to chec
Who knows the impact on crime of simply having an NRA sticker on the
front window of a home, or a sign that says, "This home protected by
Smith and Wesson." No way to know (even with a survey) the number of
times owning or giving the perception of owning a fire arm has provided
disincentive to a w
I agree that there is a disparity in life experience on this list. In my
mere 32 years of life, I have met dozens of people who illegally carry
concealed weapons.
These people overlap considerably with those that don't file income
taxes, work for cash only, or in another way significantly evade ta
>How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
>know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
>health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
>or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
Well one thing one can do is
>I would take that bet, and not based on a survey, but simply anecdotal
>evidence from the 6 people I personally know ...
This is the problem with dueling anecdotes (and perhaps goes some way to explaining
our different perspectives). In my 48 years of life I've known hundreds of people who
own
>While she was Attorney General, Janet Reno commissioned a study to try to
>prove that private firearms ownership does not deter crime. The commission
>concluded nonetheless that Americans use firearms .5 to 1.5 million times a
>year to deter crimes. Given the obvious bias of the study, this c
How would one estimate the accuracy of self-reports of self-defense? I
know in medical research you can assess the validity of self-reported
health by doing follow up medical exams or seeing if the respondent dies
or becomes seriously ill shortly after the survey.
Is self-defense just one of th
In a message dated 2/5/03 12:01:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>>Indeed, the main finding from the surveys is not the brandishment result
>>but the fact that guns are used defensively several million times a year
>>(according to Kleck's survey and several others.)
>
>Which is highly suspect.
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:24:50 -0500, "William Dickens"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>I would bet any money that the true fraction of people who
> use firearms in self-defense (brandishment or otherwise) is a whole heck
> of a lot lower (an order of magnitude or more) than what is suggested by
> Klec
Yes, Bill's points about surveys are technically correct but Kleck was
aware of these issues and tried to design a survey to handle them as
best as is possible. See Kleck's papers for details.
Alex
--
Alexander Tabarrok
Department of Economics, MSN 1D3
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, 2
>Indeed, the main finding from the surveys is not the brandishment result
>but the fact that guns are used defensively several million times a year
>(according to Kleck's survey and several others.)
Which is highly suspect. It is computed by projecting the fraction of people in a
relatively smal
What doesn't come through in the Lott material on Slate is that the 98%
figure is one sentence in a big book. The vast bulk of Lott's work on
shall-issue laws is based on publicly available data. The best figure
on defensive gun use involving brandishment only is from a survey by
Kleck and it is
http://www.derosa-research.com/barrons.htm
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