Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Mark Gibson writes:
And Waller and Okihiro (1978, p. 31) reported that 44% of burglarized Toronto residences were occupied during the burglaries, with 21% of the burglaries resulting in confrontations between victim and offender.
Waller and Okihiro did not have enough money to conduct a full victim survey of Toronto, so concentrated on some high crime areas. Their results do not necessarily generalize to the whole city. A full victim survey of Edmonton in 1987 found an at-home rate of 10%, which is less than that for the US.
That would not explain why at-home burglary rates appear to be inversely correlated with gun-ownership rates.
How on earth can you claim this, Mark? After all, you have dismissed the NCVS (source of the at-home burglary rates) as flawed and the ICS (source of the gun-ownership) rates as fraudulent.
