Posted on 09/15/2022 6:42:10 AM PDT by marktwain
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Those who follow the debate on restoring Second Amendment rights have probably heard the other side proclaim some variant of:
“Most victims are murdered by people they know.”
The implication is defending yourself from a murderer is futile because there is no point in trying to defend yourself from a person who is close to you. This is a way of lying with statistics. The truth is far different.
In 2013, this correspondent published an essay on the Misleading Murderer that you Know. The numbers were from 2010. This article uses numbers from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for 2019.
The most accurate crime statistics involve homicides, particularly murders. The most easily solved homicides are murders of passion between intimates. The hardest homicides to solve are those with no connection between the murderer and the victim.
The largest category of victims in the FBI reports of victim relationships to their murderer is unknown. In 2019, those victims are 49% of the total. It is a huge number. Some of this is because FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are often filed before an investigation is complete. As murders of passion among intimates are the easiest to solve, this means a much higher percentage of strangers and acquaintances fall into the unknown category when the UCR report is filled out.
The clearance rate for murder in 2019 was 59%. This means 41% were not solved. About 84% of the murderers who are unknown by the time of the UCR report remain unknown. Likely, most of the 16% solved are not intimate partner murders. Those that are are unlikely to have been living with their victim.
The clearance rate for murder in 2020 dropped to 54.4%.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Very interesting. Thank you for posting this.
The Democrats want to protect us from the horrors of every day life, like our cars. firearms, speech, the vote...because we are too stupid and/or evil to handle them, and they know better. The whole premise of totalitarianism is that ordinary people cannot be trusted with freedom.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
They also like to pimp that lame excuse for not having a personal firearm: The attacker will just get it away from you and use it on you. Or if you keep a gun in your home: A burglar will find it and use it to shoot you when you come home.
And on and on. Luckily hardly anybody heeds this type of data - except for libwad commenters and sociologists and so on, trying to kill the 2nd amendment.
But gun sales continue to be brisk. :D #Capitalism
Does that make them a known stranger which would probably be more accurately combined with to 20% in the acquaintance category?
It’s likely that...
Unknown=Hillary
Hillary might also account for the categories “Stranger” and acquaintance.
In cases where they do, the murderer is more likely to be someone you know then a stranger.
Of course the idea that you can not defend yourself against someone you know is silly. Just because I may have met someone does not move them into the benign category.
Yes, it means the authorities do no know who the murderer is, and therefore, they do not know the relationship of the murderer to the victim.
Murders where there is no connection between the murderer and the victim are usually the hardest to solve.
I’m surprised the boyfriend/girlfriend is not higher.
Actually they may have a pretty good idea who the murderer is but just no proof.
Without enough proof, no case.
Murders where there is no connection between the murderer and the victim are usually the hardest to solve.
Yes. Motive unknown makes it hard to know where to look.
Nameless Gang Member #1 knows Nameless Gang Member #2 and that’s an “acquaintance”. These numbers are way off as UCR reports as much as 89% per year are gang/drug murders.
Yup,
The ‘Gay’ community is prolific
in snuffing each other.
They can’t Think Straight.
I see what you did there ..
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