Tim Lambert
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April 20, 1994
Method of % Completed % Attacked % Injured Num Times
Self Protection Used(a)
Used gun 30.9 25.2 17.4 89,009
Used Knife 35.2 55.6 40.3 59,813…
March 17, 1994
R Bryner said:
Changing what is continuous data(numbers) to ranks to do an analysis on
them is throwing information away. Why is it done, I will tell you why,
someone did not like the information and decided to remove it. The funny
thing is it even has a legitimate sounding name.
Yeah, "non-…
March 14, 1994
Pim van Meurs wrote:
Spearman Rank Correlations between % of households
owning guns and r value p value
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Proportions of homicides with a gun 0.608 <0.02…
February 14, 1994
Frank Crary said:
The correlation with gun ownership is equally easy to explain. In
the neighborhoods studied, a large fraction of the gun owners are
either criminals (confirmed by the study's correlation previous
convictions)
The study found a correlation between criminal record and homicide,
not…
February 9, 1994
pim writes:
Are you arguing that the increase in D.C.'s suicide and homicide rates is
related to a law passed 12 years earlier ?
Thomas Grant Edwards said:
I don't see why this is difficult to imagine. It might have taken 12 years
for most of the legal grandfathered guns in the hands of average…
February 8, 1994
Joe B. Simpson said:
The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23). pp
1615-1620. Special Article: Effects Of Restrictive Licensing Of
Handguns On Homicide And Suicide In The District Of Columbia.
Loftin-Colin. McDowall-David. Wiersema-Brian. Cottey-Talbert-J.
Note that the study…
February 6, 1994
Nate Lund said:
Point Blank, by Gary Kleck, page 134:
"From October 1966 to March 1967, the Orlando Police Department trained
more that 2500 women to use guns. Organized in response to demands from
citizens worried about a sharp increase in rape, this was an unusually
large and highly publicized…
February 5, 1994
Michael J. Phelps writes:
Wright (1983) compare handgun attacks with long bladed knife attacks;
as do Wilson & Sherman (1961 p 643) with findings of:
mortality rate for handguns: 16.8%
ice picks: 14.3
butcher knives: 13.3
Kleck has made a dishonest selection of…
February 5, 1994
Nosy wrote:
Saying all firearms are phallic symbols is stupid and a lie.
Bizarre. Nosy is apparently unaware of the difference between a
phallus and a phallic symbol.
No, the whole concept of a "phallic symbol" is discredited and
worthless concept. I'm not aware of any respectable schools of…
December 17, 1993
(C. D. Tavares) writes:
Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Second Edition, U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ-105506,
March 1988.
For 1985, for robbery and assaults, the following is how
many incidents involved a firearm and how many involved a knife.…
December 1, 1993
Dean Payne writes:
"For example, in 1974 Massachusetts passes the Bartley-Fox
Law, which requires a special license to carry a handgun outside the
home or business. The law is supported by a mandatory prison sentence.
Studies by Glenn Pierce and William Bowers of Northeastern University
documented…
October 25, 1993
Steve Kao said:
RKBA.016 - Is the United States the most violent nation?
Version 1.2 (last changed on 91/03/22 at 13:05:06)
In homicide, the US is number 11, with a murder rate of 9.60 per 100,000.
The nearest European country in the Netherlands, with a homicide rate of
7.15 per 100,000. However,…
October 15, 1993
Greg Booth said:
A 1976 study put guns in 40% of Canadian households.
An Angus Reid poll in 1991 put the number at 23%.
The 1989 International Crime Survey gave 29%
From Phil Ronzone's rkba.002 (US rates converted to rate per 100,000)
from U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the…
October 5, 1993
Point Blank, by Gary Kleck, pg 165, citing a study by Wilson and Sherman, 1961:
"At least one medical study compared very similar sets of wounds ('all were
penetrating wounds of the abdomen'), and found that the mortality rate in
pistol wounds was 16.8%, while the rate was 14.3% for ice pick wounds…
October 5, 1993
Alfred A. Hambidge, Jr. said:
For the benefit of those trying to follow this thread, could you post
the NCS questions in question?
There are 20 screening questions. I'm not going to type them all in
-- the following are just the ones that relate to to assault and
robbery.
(37) Did anyone take…
September 30, 1993
Canada. Gun law in 78.
Homicide rate (per 100,000 population)
74-78 2.7 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.8 average 2.9
79-83 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7 average 2.6
(a t test on the statistical significance of the difference of the means gives p=.01)
Thomas Grant Edwards said:
From "Gun Control and Rates of Firearm…
September 26, 1993
Look in "Experiences of Crime across the World" van Dijk, Mayhew
and Killias (1991). This reports the result of an international
victimisation survey in the US, Canada, Australia and 11 European
countries.
Danny Low said:
The last time I looked at an atlas, the world included places like
Mexico…
September 23, 1993
Steve Kao said:
Perhaps someone from Switzerland can enlighten us. Are not all males
between the ages of 18 and 55 issued rifles?
No. All male Swiss citizens between 20 and 50 who are in the army are
issued rifles. Roughly 15% of Swiss residents are not citizens, and
20% of the citizens called…
September 22, 1993
Jon Buck said:
NCS didn't do a very good job of asking; they only asked about
defensive weapon use after the respondent answered positively to
having been a victim of a crime.
Right, so cases where someone whipped out a gun without being
threatened with violence weren't counted.
Kleck makes this…
September 22, 1993
C. D. Tavares said:
Hey, Tim --- perhaps you can compare the ten largest US cities ---
the places where the vast majority of US violent crime occurs --- with
third world nations, and then enumerate for us the sociological factors
for which there is a tinker's damn worth of difference between the…
September 21, 1993
Michael J. Phelps said:
Is it not possible that many unsuccessful robberies are not reported, thus
not included in the NCS data?
NCS data is not based on reports, but a very extensive survey.
Consider that a person who is on the
receiving end of an attempted robbery didn't loose anything [so what…
September 21, 1993
Kleck's survey:
(1) 2,500,000 defensive uses
(2) 8% of these involve wounding/killing a criminal.
Therefore:
8% of 2,500,000 = 200,000 defensive uses involve wounding/killing a
criminal.
Kleck's earlier research:
(3) 15% of gunshot wounds are fatal.
David Barton said:
I strongly suspect a…
September 20, 1993
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,…
September 20, 1993
Nosy said:
Perhaps Lambert can explain why the US murder RATE in
which feet and/or fists were used as weapons is higher
than the Canadian or UK murder rate with the same
weapons.
Are feet and/or fists more "readily available" in
the United States than in Canada or the UK?
Why Nosy, didn't you know…
September 20, 1993
In "Point Blank" Gary Kleck writes:
``One way one might crudely and partially control for United
States-Japan cultural differences is to compare homicide rates among
Japanese-Americans, who live where guns are plentiful, with the homicide
rates of their presumably culturally similar brethren…
September 16, 1993
Peter K. Boucher said:
We have higher homicide rates than many nations, but guns aren't
the cause of it. In any case, this kind of comparison can be
used by both sides (Mexico has stricter gun control and more
homicide, while Switzerland has more gun owners and less homicide),
but it remains…
March 22, 1993
Jim De Arras said:
Well, Mr. Lambert, lets have the numbers for .au, and see where the trend leads
us.
Here are all the numbers I have.
Country % at-home % gun homicide
burglaries ownership rate
Netherlands 48 2 0.9
England 26-59 5 0.7…
March 21, 1993
Jim De Arras said:
60% of all house burglaries in GB occur while the house is
occupied. Less than
10% here. More than 50% of homes here have firearms, less than 5% there.
I've proven that the mere existence without use of most guns in
homes in the USA makes even your gunless home safer to sleep…
March 12, 1993
Bill Gray said:
[talking about Orlando gun training]
Anyway, during the period after the training when the rapes dropped so
dramatically, none of the women ever fired their weapons. Moreover, none
of them shot a husband or boyfriend, nor were any children harmed with
these firearms.
I personally…
March 2, 1993
Since Scripter argues so badly, litters his postings with insults and
outright lies, deliberately cooks his statistics and frequently gets
his facts wrong, it seems to me that he he is trying to convince
people that the pro-gun case is totally without merit. Is Charles Scripter an HCI plant?…