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	Gun-Policy Advocates on Both Sides Push Dubious Figures

jklugman

4-21-2007 8:18 PM

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jklugman says:

Carl Bialik, the "Numbers Guy" at the Wall Street Journal, reports on a number of dubious statistics in the gun control debate. Here I clipped one used by gun control proponents. Here is another dubious statistic pushed by gun control opponents:

Meanwhile, opponents of gun control have written online commentaries claiming that Americans use guns 2.5 million times yearly in defense against crime. The number originates in research, more than a decade old, conducted by Florida State criminologists Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. They conducted a phone survey of defensive gun use, asking respondents if they, or members of their household, had used guns in self-defense...

Prof. Kleck cites as corroboration for his findings a 1994 survey conducted by Profs. Cook and Ludwig...Yet those two researchers concluded that their own numbers and Prof. Kleck's are inflated.

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