Category: Australia
"Stephen Heyer" writes: When confronted with the fact that "In the last 16 years the number of guns owned in Australia has quadrupled. The number of firearm deaths have dropped by 46% in that period and guns are being used...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:04 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: dgu
JB: Gun-control proponents of some stature (e.g., Wolfgang and Cook) have reluctantly acknowledged the quality of Kleck's survey methodology Sorry, but Cook does have some problems with Kleck's methodology: "The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Gun Uses...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: international
Paul Blackman wrote: "Just a reminder that Pim's reliance upon Killias for showing a relationship between gun ownership and homicide is undermined by Kleck's critique of Killias for some deliberate distortions of data, inappropriate exclusions of some countries versus others,...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:06 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: dgu
The actual number is 34%, as I stated above. The survey didn't ask how many times it had happened. An average of two for those that had been thwarted is my guess based on assuming that the distribution of the...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:06 AM • • 0 TrackBacks