Jim McCulloch wrote in message ...
>In article , Mike Haas
> wrote:

>Hmm.  Let's see.  The Austin metropolitan area, as of this morning,
>contains about 1/254 of the US population.  Mr. Hass is therefore asking
>us to believe,  based on "independent research by criminologist Gary
>Kleck", that in the first twelve hours of the new year here is Austin,
>approximately 14 crimes were averted by citizen ownership of firearms.
>
>It seems to me that this supposed statistic would test the credulity even
>of the truest of true believers.  But, alas, I have to say I would put my
>money on the credulity of the

Sounds about right to me. I wonder, though, if Criminal "A" considers
committing a crime against Citizen "B" but then decides (for whatever
reason) to victimize Citizen "C" instead, has a crime been
prevented? Certainly Citizen "B" thinks so.