The article reviews research on gun carrying and reports new findings from the National Self-Defense Survey on the prevalence, incidence, and patterns of adult gun carrying for protection. About 8.8 percent of adults carried guns in the preceding year, 3.7 percent...
Results from our study of the influence of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law on homicide and suicide by firearm have been questioned for not distinguishing between “unlawful” homicide (ie, murder) and “justifiable” homicide (ie, lawful use of lethal...
A criminologist has been using national self-report surveys to estimate the incidence of self-defense gun use in the United States (Kleck 199I). His most recent estimate is that civilians use guns in self-defense against offenders more than 2.5 million times each year...
The choices of potential victims and of criminals with respect to weapons were analyzed in an economic game framework. It was found, using National Crime Victimization Study data, that victims who have and use guns have both lower losses and lesser injury rates from...
This essay considers the empirical foundations for some of the more important and controversial conclusions concerning guns, crime, and gun control advanced in Gary Kleck’s highly influential treatise, Point Blank. We reveal significant flaws in his original data...
