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CRAMER: On the right side of the bullet
More Americans protect themselves with guns than you think
By Clayton E. Cramer
The Washington Times
Thursday, February 9, 2012

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While the results from studies vary, the numbers are large. The National Crime Victimization Survey, for various procedural reasons, is at the low end, showing 108,000 such cases a year (although this was some years back, when crime rates were higher than now). The widely reported Kleck/Gertz study, which has its own set of problems, showed a range of 830,000 to 2.45 million defensive gun uses per year. Other studies have fallen solidly in the middle, with hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses per year.

Our study examines a variety of incident types: concealed-weapon permit holders (285 accounts); home invasions (1,227 incidents); residential burglaries (488). There are categories that we would never have thought were all that common: 172 incidents where people defended themselves from animal attacks (some wild, some dogs gone wild); 34 were incidents where pizza delivery drivers defended themselves from robbery.

Clayton E. Cramer teaches history at the College of Western Idaho and is co-author of “Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance From Citizens and Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie” (Cato Institute, 2006).

...pretty good reading...had a soothing effect...

Sounds like a fellow who should get airfare paid to testify at campus carry hearings imho ... along with a girl from Nevada, (Amanda Collins http://www.nevadanewsbureau.com/2011/03 ... carry-law/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ) and a deceased girl's mom (Brianna Zunino Denison-deceased) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Brianna_Denison" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; same guy murdered her that attacked/raped Amanda Collins, and a three fellows/alumni from Virginia Tech. (Bradford B. Wiles, http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/80510" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ) and ( Wayne Chiang and Ken Stanton - of Virginia Tech Students for Concealed Carry- who were Students at the time John Woods was off campus eating taquitos and Colin was talking on a phone while Cho shot people until he got tired of it. )

...why clutter the hearings with facts and reality???

speedsix wrote:...why clutter the hearings with facts and reality???

true ... I forgot, they don't listen to facts.

Still, some rebuttal to the "2 survivors" would be good.

...when the voters of the states decide to back their kids' safety with the power of the checkbook...our children will be able to carry on campus...the state law will allow it...then the bigshots at the schools will decide if they want to have their way...or our tuition dollars..."we" just haven't gotten serious and committed about making it happen ...yet...