Is this the way to treat a Mugger?

[denuseri]

Sorry my boolean search includes my Universities ability to give me access to some web sites that are controlled or restricted for the general public. But just for giggles sake I did another search here from home with google and found some interesting things




According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 2005, 477,040 victims of violent crimes stated that they faced an offender with a firearm.

Incidents involving a firearm represented 9% of the 4.7 million violent crimes of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault in 2005.

The FBI stated that 66% of 16,137 murders are committed with firearms.

According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from -

a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2%
a retail store or pawnshop for about 12%
obtained from an illegal source such as for family, friends, or a street buy, 80%

And from the:
U.S. Department of Justice,Office of Justice Programs,Bureau of Justice Statistics:

On average about 83,000 crime victims per year used a
firearm to defend themselves or their property.

Three-fourths of the victims who used a firearm for defense did so during a violent crime; a fourth, during a theft, household burglary, or motor vehicle theft.

Where as offenders armed with handguns committed a record 931,000
violent crimes as measured by the National Crime Victimization
Survey (NCVS),

*A fifth of the victims defending themselves with a firearm
suffered an injury, compared to almost half of those who defended themselves with weapons other than a firearm or who had no weapon.

*In most cases victims who used firearms to defend themselves or
their property were confronted by offenders who were either unarmed
or armed with weapons other than firearms. On average about 35% (or 22,000 per year) of the violent crime victims defending themselves with a firearm faced an offender who also had a firearm.

Any I way I add it up from any reputable scource it comes up the same for me.

Criminals get the vast majority of thier firearms from illegal scources (80%).

People that defend themselves with a fire arm have a much larger chance of survival compared to those that do not.

IMHO the reliability of an objective scource (especially a .gov or .edu scource from a boolean search of acredited rescources) isnt in question nor is thier "selective and meaningless statistics".

Of course I can understand why gun control advocates wish to say ( given the wieght of those statistics that didnt support thier argument) that the numbers are meaningless or selective..