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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (142417)2/6/2002 12:07:33 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1576880
 
Spiderman? GI Joe? Who is so perfect that they could never shoot someone by mistake, or in the heat of passion?

The percentage of gun owners who shoot someone by accident or in a fit of passionate anger is very tiny.

"In 1996, 65% of intimate parter homicides involved guns."**

**[Source: Lawrence A. Greenfield et. al.; "Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current and Former Spouses, Boyfriends etc"; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998.]

I would say that's a pretty high percentage.


One of my links states that the people who were saved by a gun in 2000 is minuscle.

Your link says nothing of the sort. It says that a relatively small number of justifiable homicides are committed by privately owned firearms. It doesn't even look at the many cases of defensive use of guns where there is no homicide.

There is no one including Dr. Kleck that will convince me that there were 3.0 million Defensive Gun Uses [DGU] in CA in 1976 by non institutional adults nor 2.1 DGUs in 1978 by US registered voters [apparently a lot of those non institutional adults in CA were not registered voters..... imagine what the number of DGUs for the country would have been had they been registered.....clearly the number of DGUs would have been in the billions according to Dr. Kleck's surveying techniques].

Sorry I ain't buying these statistics....sounds like a lot of gun owners have a hero complex combined with an overactive imagination.

ted
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