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There are roughly a million violent crimes a year. It is not credible there are 3x as many defensive uses of firearms that are somehow being missed. The page y
by gbhn 4y ago
There are roughly a million violent crimes a year. It is not credible there are 3x as many defensive uses of firearms that are somehow being missed.
The page you reference indexes a few thousand over several years. Seems likely an undercount as the page claims but not by that much by probably a couple orders of magnitude.
- epicureanideal 4y ago> There are roughly a million violent crimes a year Source? Seems low.
- zmgsabst 4y agoThose numbers are (roughly) in line with FBI statistics, from 500,000 to 1,500,000 depending on if you include assaults. https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2 https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
- zmgsabst 4y agoSure — I’m willing to believe a lower number; that was just what I found.
- jka 4y agoAs far as I can tell, the 500k-3m figure is from an unpublished[1] report that was commissioned by the CDC - further validation could be helpful. There is also separate disputation of the figure in a report[2] by Harvard's Injury Control Research Center. [1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/16/the-study-that-gun-rights-activists-keep-citing-but-completely-misunderstand/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/16/the-s... [2] - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...