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.

2 comments:

Ed said...

"Using a 5,200 person telephone surgery"?

Sounds painful.

David Codrea said...

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