A Usenet persona calling itself Nisarel wrote:

Scott Weiser wrote:

And much higher rates of self-defense use of arms to PREVENT crime
victimization. Estimates of the lawful use of firearms for
self-defense vary from the FBI approved number of more than 80,000
per year (which is almost twice the incidence of violent assaults)
to more than two million per year by Kleck, Lott et al.

Kleck's DGU research is suspect because his estimate produces a rate of DGU
woundings far in
excess of what is actually observed.

Prove it.


Lott's gun research is simply fraudulent.

Sez you...and HCI. Unfortunately for you, both authors have been extensively
peer-reviewed and their methodology, data and conclusions are sound.

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Scott Weiser

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