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A former Texas state trooper who was assigned to help fill out the FBI's monthly Uniform Crime Report e-mailed me last week and said beginning in 1997, the bureau "first asked a highly relevant question: How many times in your jurisdiction was a weapon displayed or the threat of a weapon displayed that stopped a crime in progress?"
The ex-trooper said, according to FBI figures, in 1997, 1.2 million persons reported (that's key because not all persons "report" such incidents) protecting themselves simply by brandishing or displaying a weapon; in 1998 the figure rose to 1.5 million; in 1999, 2 million.
"If a weapon was displayed in over 1 million incidents that stopped a crime in progress, sounds like it is quite effective, if only 17,000 people were killed by handguns (homicide only)," the trooper said. "That means for every person killed by a homicidal action with a handgun, 59 people were saved by the mere threat of defense by a handgun. If you take the higher figure of 2 million, that would mean 118 people would live for every one that dies by handgun homicide.
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So next time you hear about guns being more likely to cause harm to innocents and other such non-sense keep this article in mind.
Guns don't have to be fired to be used for self-defense.
Does anyone have these stats available. First time I've heard about them, and I can't seem to find them on the fbi site.
A former Texas state trooper who was assigned to help fill out the FBI's monthly Uniform Crime Report e-mailed me last week and said beginning in 1997, the bureau "first asked a highly relevant question: How many times in your jurisdiction was a weapon displayed or the threat of a weapon displayed that stopped a crime in progress?"
The ex-trooper said, according to FBI figures, in 1997, 1.2 million persons reported (that's key because not all persons "report" such incidents) protecting themselves simply by brandishing or displaying a weapon; in 1998 the figure rose to 1.5 million; in 1999, 2 million.
"If a weapon was displayed in over 1 million incidents that stopped a crime in progress, sounds like it is quite effective, if only 17,000 people were killed by handguns (homicide only)," the trooper said. "That means for every person killed by a homicidal action with a handgun, 59 people were saved by the mere threat of defense by a handgun. If you take the higher figure of 2 million, that would mean 118 people would live for every one that dies by handgun homicide.
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So next time you hear about guns being more likely to cause harm to innocents and other such non-sense keep this article in mind.
Guns don't have to be fired to be used for self-defense.
Does anyone have these stats available. First time I've heard about them, and I can't seem to find them on the fbi site.