Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
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nice try toodles, but this little gasbag of yours IGNORES THE FACTS my link pointed out with regards to Winterborn's Kleck link: Maybe Mr. Wolfgang should have read with a critical eye. Observe and learn from this excerpt:
One check on the credibility of these DGU estimates is made possible by the detailed follow-up questions included in both these surveys. In the NSPOF, respondents were asked whether they fired their guns, and if so, whether they
managed to hit the mark. The responses to this item from our 19 "genuine" defensive gun users, multiplied by our sampling weights, imply that approximately 132,000 perpetrators were either wounded or killed at the hands of armed civilians in 1994.
That number, it turns out, is just about the same as the total of all people who were shot and killed or received treatment for nonfatal gunshot wounds in an emergency room that year-yet we know that almost all of those are there as a result of criminal assault, suicide attempt, or accident. There is no trace in these official statistics of the wounded assailants.
Respondents are also asked to report the circumstances under which they were provoked into using their gun. From the NSPOF, we estimate that 322,000 used a gun to defend against a would-be rapist. But that is more than the total
number of rapes and attempted rapes estimated from the best available source, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)!6
Similar puzzles are found in Kleck and Gertz's findings [Hemenway, 19961. Our closer examination of the DGU reports in the NSPOF suggests that almost half of the incidents appear to contain some internal inconsistency, or otherwise
do not make sense. We are persuaded that surveys of this sort generate estimates that grossly exaggerate the true number of DGUs. The most likely explanation provides an important insight about the limitations of the survey method.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/pa...enway_2007.pdf
you make the same mistake that willfully ignorant 3rd rate gunner propagandists make... YOU didn't even read the link I provided, YOU just ran to find a source that agreed/supported with your view and posted that. But the devil is in the details, as I've shown above. So your collection of suposition and conjecture is wasted when the FACTS are analyzed (the source I provided DOCUMENTS ALL IT'S INFORMATION, not just the parts necessary to support it's theme).
The statements you put forth in your initial response to me was a LIE, as I pointed out previously. You can't soft soap it or #% around it. My OP and subsequent responses stand.