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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
September 25, 1997
Category: dgu
A large number of criminal shootings are "drive-bys" --- fired from long range and more likely to hit an extremity than a self-defence shooting at close range. These factors suggest that defensive shootings would be more lethal than criminal ones....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:08 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 1997
Category: silly
Alan Peyton-Smith writes: Oh, BTW, I have good reason to believe that this Brian Ross we're talking about is the same Brian Ross who created a few extra Internet accounts for himself under false names such as David Bowman and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:41 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 1997
Category: dgu
John Briggs writes: [Calculation of number of justifiable shootings deleted] This would suggest 15,000 to 20,000 civilian justifiable woundings or 17,500 to 22,500 incidents in which a civilian shot and hit an assailant. Kleck does a similar calculation in "Point...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:07 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 1997
Category: USA
Viktor writes: Of course, we know here in America that the highest crime rates for the past 50 years are in the cities that have the strictest gun control laws (Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Detroit) imposed on innocent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: dgu
John Briggs writes: [Calculation of number of justifiable shootings deleted] This would suggest 15,000 to 20,000 civilian justifiable woundings or 17,500 to 22,500 incidents in which a civilian shot and hit an assailant. Kleck does a similar calculation in "Point...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:52 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 1997
Category: dgu
SFBearCop wrote: I can think of a number of reasons, none of them noble, why someone would fabricate a DGU, starting with giving the pollster what they thought was wanted. People do it all the time, so a friend in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:03 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 1997
Category: dgu
Peter Boucher writes: Just in case anyone's interested. Copied from Kleck/Gertz, here are the polls from table 1 (minus those with no estimate of annual DGUs): Survey, Where, What year, What kinds of guns, # DGUs Field, California, 1976, just...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:29 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 1997
Category: dgu
"Eugene Volokh" writes: but I was wondering what you thought about the NCVS point I raised again a few days ago. To my knowledge, waiting for respondents to volunteer information is generally considered rather bad survey practice; and we saw...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: dgu
Dr. Paul H. Blackman writes: I was curious about the suggestion that hardly anyone could possibly still believe the Kleck data now that NSPOF had become the 15th or 16th such survey in the same general category. Then you seem...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:45 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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