re: Kleck
You know you got shit studies when you have to go back to the original author of the study to refute criticism.
What did you think Kleck was gonna do dude? Say oh yea, I was little off on my numbers.
Especially when YOU are not using the original numbers Kleck came up with.
What was that number? Oh I know, around 2.5 million.
You backed it down to 1.5 million.
Why?
If the Kleck study is your bible, why do you not use the original number?
Cause it was wrong. Which puts doubt on the entire survey.
Post some of the critical surveys and let people compare methodolgy and results and compare them in their own mind.
Problem you got dude is that people know many people who own guns. And none of then have ever had to use them to stop crime.
At a million five a year, in 10 years you got 15 million different people stoppin crime.
Which means everyone should know SOMEONE who used their gun in the manner Kleck says we do.
the study was bullshit with a gunner agenda.
I dont contest that some crime is stopped by gun owners. thats why I have guns. Which I have never had to use to stop crime in over 50 years.
the 1.5 million per year is bullshit though.
Okay…I get it….you are a dumb person…..Kleck has been through this, and there have people not involved in the research who have looked at his work…..and said his is an accurate use of the research methods……and again…you are a dumb person…I have posted 40 years of studies….Kleck's is just one that puts it that high, clinton and obama…gun grabbers extreme, have put out numbers just as high………try to do some research, here, I'll help….
I just averaged the studies......which were conducted by different researchers, from both private and public researchers, over a period of 40 years looking specifically at guns and self defense....the name of the researcher is first, then the year then the number of times they determined guns were used for self defense......notice how many of them there are and how many of them were done by gun grabbers like the clinton Justice Dept. and the obama CDC
And these aren't all of the studies either...there are more...and they support the ones below.....
A quick guide to the studies and the numbers.....the full lay out of what was studied by each study is in the links....
GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense
GunCite Frequency of Defensive Gun Use in Previous Surveys
Field...1976....3,052,717 ( no cops, military)
DMIa 1978...2,141,512 ( no cops, military)
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,68 ( no cops, military)
Kleck......1994...2.5 million ( no cops, military)
Obama's CDC....2013....500,000--3million
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Bordua...1977...1,414,544
DMIb...1978...1,098,409 ( no cops, military)
Hart...1981...1.797,461 ( no cops, military)
Mauser...1990...1,487,342 ( no cops, military)
Gallup...1993...1,621,377 ( no cops, military)
DEPT. OF JUSTICE...1994...1.5 million ( the bill clinton study)
Journal of Quantitative Criminology--- 989,883 times per year."
(Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology,[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.[18])
Paper: "Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment." By David McDowall and others. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2000. http://www.springerlink.com/content/rngn3274255v6j67/
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Ohio...1982...771,043
Gallup...1991...777,152
Tarrance... 1994... 764,036 (no cops, military)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..
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If you take the studies from that Kleck cites in his paper, 16 of them....and you only average the ones that exclude military and police shootings..the average becomes 2 million...I use those studies because I have the details on them...and they are still 10 studies (including Kleck's)....