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From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Guns as Protection
Message-ID: <352@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 10:22:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 10:22:25 1985
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In article <> bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas) writes:
>There seems to be a lot	of statistics thrown about here	over
>how many people	are killed by guns and how many	use guns to
>protect	themselves.  In	going through my 1984 "Book of Lists"
>I found	the following numbers.
>
>In the US in 1984:
>
>Each day 63 people are killed by someone with a	handgun.
>Each day 620 people use	a handgun to scare/capture/kill	an attacker.
>

OK, I'll bite.  What's the source of these so-called statistics?
(Don't tell me the Book of Lists).  I want to know what study reports
these bogus figures.

I posted *my* source.  Let me post another.  A 1975 study of 1200
robberies in Chicago showed that less than 1% of robbery victims were
able to use a weapon to resist their assailants.  [Dr. Richard
Block, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of
Chicago.]

>I personaly don't think that statistics have any place in
>the discussion of gun ownership(although they do speak for
>themselves).  Private ownership	of guns	is necessary if	we
>want to	continue living	in a free society.

Right.  For example, like that totalitarian state which strongly
regulates private ownership of handguns-- Japan.

Why is it "necessary"?  Beliefs like this explain why
we have Ed Meese as attorney general.

Jeff Shallit