Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Support for Kleck

Using a 5,200 person telephone surgery [survey-- see comment by Ed], authors conclude that annually about 1.9 million people draw a gun during a home intrusion, but don't actually see the intruder, another 503,000 draw a gun and do see the intruder and (not surprisingly) 497,000 report the intruder fled in response to the gun. [More]
David T. Hardy found a study from 1997.
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2 comments:

  1. Ed10/06/2015 1:36 PM

    "Using a 5,200 person telephone surgery"?

    Sounds painful.

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  2. David Codrea10/06/2015 5:08 PM

    HA! Missed that-- looks like auto-complete made an assumption. I'll let him know.

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