national crime survey well i dropped by the library yesterday and picked up back copies of the national crime survey in an effort to examine what it said about self defense with a firearm i haven t ground through much in the way of numbers yet but a couple of things jumped out at me first only and specify the type of weapon used in self defense and refer only to weapon the second is that while assaults rose about from to w gun defenses reported fell by almost unless there s an explanation for this i m tempted to mark it as a reporting problem and as such going ahead with any examination of the numbers would be a waste of time anybody have an idea what might have cause a real difference and not just a reporting difference the survey doesn t appear to have changed significantly between and david veal univ of tenn div of cont education info services group pa utkvm utk edu
