To: Squantos;Travis McGee; harpseal; pocat; lurker; Joe Brower;
In 1993 'only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high.
Newsweek, November 15, 1993Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).
Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, (1991):111-116, 148.
Courtesy of gunfacts.org
93 posted on
03/02/2002 4:00:04 PM PST by
AAABEST
To: AAABEST
I love that factoid ! ..........half assed wannabe FiBi's have waaaaaaaay to many Ooooooop's these days. Must be the fact they are granted college degrees via the Bell Curve and pushed through Quantico on a fastrac PC based socialist curriculum .............
And we're the alledged threat to society ?!?!?!?......Gheeeesh ! Stay Safe AAA !!
95 posted on
03/02/2002 4:12:25 PM PST by
Squantos
To: AAABEST
Excellent stat! I'll have to lock that one into my "memory bank" and unload it next time someone tells me he or she is "uncomfortable" with concealed carry.
124 posted on
03/02/2002 6:38:09 PM PST by
pocat
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