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Half cocked: why most of what you see in the media about guns is wrong.
I often give talks to audiences explaining that research by me and others shows that guns are used much more often to fend off crimes than to commit them. People are very surprised to learn that survey data show that guns are used defensively by private citizens in the U.S. anywhere from 1.5 to 3.4 million times a year. A question I hear repeatedly is: "If defensive gun use occurs so often, why haven't I ever heard of even one story?"
Obviously anecdotal stories published in newspapers can't prove how numerous these events are, but they can at least deal with the question of whether these events even occur. During 2001, I did two detailed searches on defensive ...
- The illegitimacy of one-sided speculation: getting the defensive gun use...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Kleck, Gary Gertz, Marc June 22, 1997 700+ words
...balanced, intellectually serious assessment of our estimates of defensive gun use (DGU). Instead, his critique serves the narrow political...flaws that might have contributed to the overestimation of defensive gun use (DGU) frequency. He either ignores well established...
- Scholars dispute numbers of `defensive gun uses' in U.S.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Montgomery, Rick August 15, 2003 700+ words
...a gun to stop a crime. But, you wonder, just how often? Picture a target jumping all over the place. Estimates of "defensive gun uses" range from the tens of thousands a year to an eyebrow-raising 2.5 million a year _ a figure gun-rights groups...
- A call for a truce in the DGU war. (defensive gun use)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Smith, Tom W. June 22, 1997 700+ words
For almost a decade scholars have been debating about how many defensive gun uses (DGUs) occur annually. Gary Kleck and colleagues,(1) citing a series of polls culminating in the 1993 Kleck-Gertz...
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- South Carolina Launches Lottery.
- Newspaper article from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) January 8, 2002 700+ words
...8--NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C.--South Carolina started its own lottery Monday, but...comparatively piddly payouts offered in South Carolina. "They ain't got nothing but scratch...mile trip takes him past a number of South Carolina gas stations and convenience stores...
Source: HighBeam Research, Half cocked: why most of what you see in the media about guns is...