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Article on Gun Statistics, relations to crime, etc
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Msg#: 1770 Date: 08-24-94 06:20
From: [email protected] Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: Re: Gun Crime stats -
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Bt> Subject: Re: Gun Crime stats -
Bt> Date: 24 Aug 1994 06:20:41 GMT
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Bt> Peter Cheimets ([email protected]) wrote:
Bt> : PC: I surfed over to the US Dept of Justice gopher and got the
Bt> following : PC: statistics on crime and fire arms.
Bt> : In 1992 offenders armed with handguns committed a record 931,000
Bt> violent : crimes. Handgun crimes accounted for about 13% of all
Bt> violent crimes.
Bt> : On average in 1987-92 about 83,000 crime victims per year used a
Bt> firearm to : defend themselves or their property. Three-fourths of the
Bt> victims who used a : firearm for defense did so during a violent crime;
Bt> a fourth, during a : theft,[and] household burglary.
Bt> : PC: So there are more than 10X as many handgun crime than defenses.
Bt> Yet the : PC: criminal is less likely to use his gun than the person
Bt> defending : PC: himself (see below).
Bt> : *Offenders fired their weapon in 17% of all nonfatal handgun crimes
Bt> (or about : 2% of all violent crimes). In 3% of all handgun crimes,
Bt> the victim was : wounded. The offender shot at but missed the victim
Bt> in 14% of all handgun : crimes.
Bt> : Self-defense with firearms
Bt> : *38% of the victims defending themselves with a firearm attacked the
Bt> offender, : and the others threatened the offender with the weapon.
Bt> : *A fifth of the victims defending themselves with a firearm suffered
Bt> an : injury, compared to almost half of those who defended themselves
Bt> with weapons : other than a firearm or who had no weapon. Care should
Bt> be used in : interpreting these data because many a
Bt> : About three-fourths of the victims who used firearms for
Bt> self-defense did so : during a crime of violence.
Bt> : Average annual
Bt> number of :
Bt> victimizations : in which
Bt> victims used firearms to :
Bt> defend :
Bt> themselves or their property :
Bt> __________________________________________ :
Bt> : Attacked
Bt> Threatened : Total offender
Bt> offender :
Bt> __________________________________________ : All crimes
Bt> 82,500 30,600 51,900
Bt> : Total violent crime 62,200 25,500
Bt> 36,700
Bt> : With injury 12,100 7,300
Bt> 4,900 : Without injury 50,000 18,200
Bt> 31,800
Bt> : Theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft 20,300 5,100
Bt> 15,200
Bt> : Note: Detail may not add to total because of rounding. Includes
Bt> : victimizations in which offenders were unarmed. Excludes homicides.
Bt> : *In most cases victims who used firearms to defend themselves or
Bt> their : property were confronted by offenders who were either unarmed
Bt> or armed with : weapons other than firearms. On average between 1987
Bt> and 1992, about 35% (or : 22,000 per year) of the violent [interaction
Bt> involved police]. Questionnaire : revisions introduced in January 1993
Bt> will permit separate consideration of : police and civilian firearm
Bt> cases.)
Bt> : Offenders shot at victims in 17% of handgun crimes, 1987-92
Bt> : Percent
Bt> : _______
Bt> : Shot at victim 16.6%
Bt> : Hit victim 3.0
Bt> : Missed victim 13.6
Bt> : Nongunshot injury 1.6
Bt> : No physical injury 12.0
Bt> : Did not shoot at victim 83.4%
Bt> : Other attack/attempt 19.9
Bt> : Verbal threat of attack 15.4
Bt> : Weapon present 46.8
Bt> : Other threat .8
Bt> : Unknown action .5
Bt> : Average annual number 699,900
Bt> : Note: Excludes homicides.
Bt> : PC:Below is excerpted from a report of crimes against woman. It
Bt> seems to : PC:support the common view that woman are most likely to be
Bt> a victim of someone : PC:they know....
Bt> : WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A study of violence against
Bt> : women shows that two-thirds of these attacks were
Bt> : committed by someone the victim knew--such as a
Bt> : husband, boyfriend, other family member or
Bt> : acquaintance--a much higher figure than for men.
Bt> :
Bt> : The survey, conducted by the Justice Department's
Bt> : Bureau of Justice Statistics, found approximately 2.5
Bt> : million of the nation's 107 million females 12 years
Bt> : old and older were raped, robbed or assaulted in a
Bt> : typical year, or were the victim of a threat or an
Bt> : attempt to commit such a crime. Twenty-eight percent
Bt> : of the offenders were intimates, such as husbands or
Bt> : boyfriends, and another 39 percent were acquaintances
Bt> : or relatives.
Bt> :
Bt> : "The number of women attacked by spouses, former
Bt> : spouses, boyfriends, parents or children is more than
Bt> : 10 times higher than the number of males attacked by
Bt> : such people," said Acting Bureau Director Lawrence A.
Bt> : Greenfeld.
Bt> : PC: I couldn't find anything on the likelihood of being the victim
Bt> of your own : handgun.
Bt> : --
Bt> : Peter 'I be out at the shooting range' Cheimets
Bt> --
Bt> "In this connection, I think a moral and decent thing to do - for
Bt> people who read my posts - is to contribute to the nearest newsnet
Bt> fund some $ per postings of mine that they read." - Alex Abian
Bt> "The 'god' of the Old Testament was actually a TRIBE OF RENEGADE SPACE
Bt> CANNIBALS..." -Rob McElwaine
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