Brain357
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And another point where he clarrifies his position...
Guns and Self-Defense by Gary Kleck Ph.D.
Consequently, police never hear about the bulk of successful defensive gun uses, instead hearing mostly about an unrepresentative minority of them containing a disproportionately large number of failures. Further, even when they do receive a report of a crime that in fact involved a gun-wielding victim, the victim has strong legal reasons for leaving their own gun use out of their account of the crime. Since most defensive gun uses occur away from the victim's home, and few victims have the required permits for carrying concealed weapons in public, most gun uses probably involved a crime on the part of the victim.
again...permitting problems, not actual criminal business.....and again this report was done in the 90s before 11.1 million people had permits to carry weapons....
I've always seen that most defenses occur at home. Lott says this in his email:
all of our cases were either in a home or on a person’sproperty.
And like I mentioned before he is discussing home burglaries when he states defenders are involved in criminal activity.