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- Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:27 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Stats on legal firearm use
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Re: Stats on legal firearm use
http://guncite.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is also a good repository of 2A-related info that includes some statistical information.
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Stats on legal firearm use
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Re: Stats on legal firearm use
Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens by Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett is also a good resource.
The data upon which it is based were collected specifically because a certain academic professor claimed that guns were never actually used in any legitimate self-defense situation. Clayton Cramer knew that was nonsense, and began collecting newspaper stories of defensive gun uses (DGU). He and David Burnett and another person whose name escapes me collected just under 5000 articles over 2003-2008 before they stopped. I contributed some stories myself. Then Cramer and Burnett wrote a white paper on it. The link above takes you to the Cato Institute, which hosts the white paper in PDF form (free download) or will sell you a bound copy.
Interesting statistic from the paper: Out of 4,668 DGU reports collected, in 338 instances a person wielding a gun was disarmed. In only eleven cases was the "good guy" disarmed (and in one of those, when the good guy' rifle was taken, he drew his handgun and shot one of his assailants). In the other 227 cases, the intended victim disarmed his or her attacker.
Although not in the dataset for that paper, here's another example of that which occurred just this week apparently: Woman kills attacker with his gun, unknowingly takes out a serial killer
The data upon which it is based were collected specifically because a certain academic professor claimed that guns were never actually used in any legitimate self-defense situation. Clayton Cramer knew that was nonsense, and began collecting newspaper stories of defensive gun uses (DGU). He and David Burnett and another person whose name escapes me collected just under 5000 articles over 2003-2008 before they stopped. I contributed some stories myself. Then Cramer and Burnett wrote a white paper on it. The link above takes you to the Cato Institute, which hosts the white paper in PDF form (free download) or will sell you a bound copy.
Interesting statistic from the paper: Out of 4,668 DGU reports collected, in 338 instances a person wielding a gun was disarmed. In only eleven cases was the "good guy" disarmed (and in one of those, when the good guy' rifle was taken, he drew his handgun and shot one of his assailants). In the other 227 cases, the intended victim disarmed his or her attacker.
Although not in the dataset for that paper, here's another example of that which occurred just this week apparently: Woman kills attacker with his gun, unknowingly takes out a serial killer