Why no studies on gun ownership?

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With all the uproar on gun control, you would thing the a study on gun ownership would be a high priority, yet there have been no good, recent study. Such a study could show how likely guns are actually used to protect oneself versus how of guns are used to kill innocent people (including gun suicides). I think I already know the answer to this question, and it would be nice to have statistics to back myself up.

The last study was in, I believe, 1989, and it showed my expected results.
 
Who would you select to do the study. Any study can be canted to prove whatever political position the pollster wants to prove. No matter who did it, the results would not be accepted by the opposite side of the question.
If you really want an answer, join the NRA; you will receive “The American Rifleman” magazine every month. There is a page full of stories of those civilian individuals who overcome crime with their personal firearms every month.
Other than that, the FBI compiles national statistics about assorted assaults that have been prevented through the use of firearms.
Of course, the anti-gun types won’t believe any of this through their abysmal ignorance of and emotional response to the subject
 
I kind of doubt the leftist academic intelligensia would sanction a study if it would rebuke their arguments in favour of gun control.
 
Robert_Sock said:
With all the uproar on gun control, you would thing the a study on gun ownership would be a high priority, yet there have been no good, recent study. Such a study could show how likely guns are actually used to protect oneself versus how of guns are used to kill innocent people (including gun suicides). I think I already know the answer to this question, and it would be nice to have statistics to back myself up.

The last study was in, I believe, 1989, and it showed my expected results.
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anyone stopping you from doing one?

ProTip: if you pay for the study, you can get the results you want.
 
Research by criminology professor Gary Kleck at Florida state university who has researched gun control laws since 1976 and was a supporter of gun control laws, and is a liberal politically found that businesses and homes are less likely to be targeted by burglars in countries that have high rates of gun ownership compared to countries with low rates of gun ownership

He found guns prevent estimated 6849 crimes per day, 2.5 million crimes annually and per day 1100 murders, 5200 other violent and 550 rapes per day are prevented by showing a handgun. Less than 0.9% of that time a gun is fired

rense.com/general76/univ.htm

I think that study was released in 1993.
 
I think these statistics were released in 1993 or 1995. Research by criminology professor Gary Kleck at Florida state university who has researched gun control laws since 1976 and was a supporter of gun control laws, and is a liberal politically found that businesses and homes are less likely to be targeted by burglars in countries that have high rates of gun ownership compared to countries with low rates of gun ownership

He found guns prevent estimated 6849 crimes per day, 2.5 million crimes annually and per day 1100 murders, 5200 other violent and 550 rapes per day are prevented by showing a handgun. Less than 0.9% of that time a gun is fired

rense.com/general76/univ.htm
 
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