re nd amendment dead good excerpts from netnews talk politics guns apr nd amendment dead good by jrm gnv ifas ufl edu yea there are millions of cases where yoy say that firearms deter criminals alas this is not provable i think that that there are actually few cases where this is so excerpted from a letter i wrote a while ago although less apparent to those who have not researched the facts personal protection is as legitimate a reason as sport for the private citizen to own a gun the most recent research is that of dr gary kleck of the florida state university school of criminology he found that handguns are more often used by victims to defeat crime than by criminals to commit it vs respectively in this study these figures are even more encouraging when you consider the number of crimes that never occur because of the presence of a gun in the hands of a law abiding private citizen in a national institute of justice study of ten state prisons across the country they found that of the felons surveyed had aborted at least one crime because they believed that the intended victim was armed and agreed that most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police one of the most heinous of crimes is that against the women of this country it has been my recent observation that more women are purchasing handguns for defense in response to the present danger of these assaults this should be taken as encouraging news if the events of orlando florida are any indicator in the late s the female populace was plagued with a series of brutal assaults just the publicity of the record number of women buying guns and obtaining training resulted in an decrease in rape for that area the only city of its size in the country to experience a decrease of crime for that year additionally a us justice department study of attempted rapes showed that overall when rape is attempted the completion rate is but when a woman defends herself with a gun the completion rate drops to g kleck point blank guns and violence in america aldine de gruyter ny jd wright ph rossi armed and considered dangerous a survey of felons and their firearms aldine de gruyter ny unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them they just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong dave barry seth eliot dept of material science and engineering carnegie mellon univerity pittsburgh pa arpa eliot cmu edu or se andrew cmu edu bitnet se andrew cmccvb
