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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jackhach who wrote (491056)	11/11/2003 6:42:15 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) of 769670

You're pre-assuming that people report every incidence to the police. I know when I was pursued by a gang of thugs about 10 years ago that I didn't file a police report when I brandished and then got in my car and drove away. I know a good friend of mine didn't call the police when he brandished to get two thugs to stop pushing his father around in front of his own house. The 2 million comes from surveys of the general population at large to relate incidents from their own experience and then extrapolated based on the survey out to a larger population. And themedia doesn't regularly report brandishings because quite frankly its not news-worthy. The ones that do get reported are the ones resulting in a justifiable homicide. There were 83,000 of those by Bureau of Justice Statistics numbers in 1997. Estimates show that only 3% of incidents of self-defense result in justifiable homicides, so the vast majority of defensive uses go unreported, but the national surveys by Dr. John Lott showed this.

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