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Defensive Gun Ownership is a Myth

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Sal

Sal

This is why the NRA and their puppets in the GOP pushed through a law prohibiting the NIH from even studying gun injuries and fatalities ....

…[A] tragic myth: that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals. Despite having nearly no academic support in public health literature, this myth is the single largest motivation behind gun ownership. It traces its origin to a two-decade-old series of surveys that, despite being thoroughly repudiated at the time, persists in influencing personal safety decisions and public policy throughout the United States.

In 1992, Gary Kleck and Marc Getz, criminologists at Florida State University, conducted a random digit-dial survey to establish the annual number of defensive gun uses in the United States. They surveyed 5,000 individuals, asking them if they had used a firearm in self-defense in the past year and, if so, for what reason and to what effect. Sixty-six incidences of defensive gun use were reported from the sample. The researchers then extrapolated their findings to the entire U.S. population, resulting in an estimate of between 1 million and 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year…

These sorts of biases, which are inherent in reporting self-defense incidents, can lead to nonsensical results. In several crime categories, for example, gun owners would have to protect themselves more than 100 percent of the time for Kleck and Getz’s estimates to make sense. For example, guns were allegedly used in self-defense in 845,000 burglaries, according to Kleck and Getz. However, from reliable victimization surveys, we know that there were fewer than 1.3 million burglaries where someone was in the home at the time of the crime, and only 33 percent of these had occupants who weren’t sleeping. From surveys on firearm ownership, we also know that 42 percent of U.S. households owned firearms at the time of the survey. Even if burglars only rob houses of gun owners, and those gun owners use their weapons in self-defense every single time they are awake, the 845,000 statistic cited in Kleck and Gertz’s paper is simply mathematically impossible…

Brand new data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan organization devoted to collecting gun violence data, further confirms Hemenway’s suspicion that Kleck and Getz’s findings are absurd. The archive found that for all of 2014 there were fewer than 1,600 verified defensive guns uses, meaning a police report was filed. This total includes all outcomes and types of defensive uses with a police report—a far cry from the millions that Kleck and Getz estimated.

Many gun advocates will protest at this point that not all defensive gun uses are reported to the police, which is true. However, Kleck’s surveys and the NCVS reports indicate that more than 50 percent of such incidents are reported to the police. This would indicate 3,200 defensive uses on an annual basis, still well short of what surveys suggest. Further, if there actually are 50,000 defensive gun uses as NCVS’ data suggests, or more than 1 million as Kleck and Getz’s surveys claim, that would mean only 3.2 percent or 0.16 percent respectively of defensive gun uses are reported to the police. Believing that such a small fraction of incidents are reported is indulging in fantasy…

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/defensive-gun-ownership-myth-114262.html?ml=m_pm#.VLiAIB9kjwe

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

Someone that attacks Guns God and capitalism incessantly might be thought to be a Commie Rat...Do you actually get paid to be such a pain in the ass ?

Defensive Gun Ownership is a Myth Lenin5

Communism FAILED .....FAILED !

Guest


Guest

A gun is like a parachute... if you don't have one when you need it... you'll never need one again.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

Listen to your leader Sal...

Mao Zedong...Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

Defensive Gun Ownership is a Myth MaoZedong.Trimmed

KarlRove

KarlRove

Well Sal pantywaist boy ... Don't buy one

KarlRove

KarlRove

Defensive gun use (DGU) happens 2,000,000+ times a year

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense

KarlRove

KarlRove

As with everything else concerning guns in this country, the DGU question prompts divergent answers. At one end of the spectrum, the NRA cites research by Gary Kleck, an accomplished criminologist at Florida State University. Based on self-reporting by survey respondents, Kleck has extrapolated that DGU occurs more than 2 million times a year. Kleck doesn’t suggest that gun owners shoot potential antagonists that often. DGU covers various scenarios, including merely brandishing a weapon and scaring off an aggressor.

Sal

Sal

KarlRove wrote:As with everything else concerning guns in this country, the DGU question prompts divergent answers. At one end of the spectrum, the NRA cites research by Gary Kleck, an accomplished criminologist at Florida State University. Based on self-reporting by survey respondents, Kleck has extrapolated that DGU occurs more than 2 million times a year. Kleck doesn’t suggest that gun owners shoot potential antagonists that often. DGU covers various scenarios, including merely brandishing a weapon and scaring off an aggressor.

That's the very study that's being debunked in the article I posted, idiot.

Here ...


Defensive Gun Ownership is a Myth 9781411434721

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I grew up with guns. As a child, I would target shoot with the family on Sunday afternoons and then go out to eat after shooting. My father was an avid hunter and we had a large gun case with his favorite guns. In scouting a competed in NRA sanctioned target shooting and did very good. However, in all that time, I never heard anybody at the gun club or the hunters talking about their weapons being necessary to protect their homes. My father NEVER kept a loaded gun in the house, and was a stickler about gun safety.

How did we shift to being so damned afraid? I am sick to death of seeing so many frightened people carrying weapons because they are afraid. In the home a .16% chance of using your gun defensively......I am good with guns in the home, but the fear mongering allows some people to profit, and innocents to be killed in accidental shootings. The statistical truth should alleviate the fear, and make people realize that they really are not going to have to become Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in their home.

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