Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Larry Cipriani said:
KLECK: About 8 percent of the defensive uses involved a sexual crime such as an attempted sexual assault. About 29 percent involved some sort of assault other than sexual assault. Thirty-three percent involved a burglary or some other theft at home.
33% of 2,500,000 is 825,000. NCS data gives 1,000,000 burglaries each year when there is someone at home. So in 83% of these burglaries a gun was used for defence?? NCS asked: 3% said they used a gun for self-defence.
Twenty-two percent involved robbery.
22% of 2,500,000 is 550,000. NCS data gives about 1,000,000 robberies each year. So in 55% of these robberies a gun was used for defence?? NCS asked: 1% said they used a gun for self-defence.
criminal. And then in 8 percent they actually did wound or kill the offender.
Kleck has estimated that 15% of gunshot wounds are fatal. So: 15% of 8% of 2,500,000 is 30,000. If we believe this survey, we must conclude that there are 30,000 justifiable with-gun homicides in the US each year.
This is much more than twice the number of with-gun homicides, criminal and non-criminal.
This is 10-20 times Kleck's estimate of the number of justifiable with-gun homicides in the US each year.
It is 80 times the official FBI count of justifiable with-gun homicides.
Sorry, this statistic is totally unbelievable.
