Subdeacon Joe Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence Get it before it is disappeared. See also: http://www.examiner.com/article/study-says-self-defense-gun-use-is-effective?cid=db_articles The report comes from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on order from President Barack Obama. According to the report on Page 15, “Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed.” Estimates range from 500,000 to 3 million such uses annually. On the following page, the report also notes, “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used“ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.” The report also notes something that has been evident in FBI Uniform Crime Reports for several years. The rate of violent crime has declined over the past five years, and gun-related death rates for teens aged 15-19 declined from 1994 to 2009, the report says. Link to comment
Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 I saw that. I also read page 13 which I thought was very slanted/biased and rather misleading use of statistics around injuries and deaths. It was disappointing to see. Link to comment
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