mcculloch@mail.utexas.edu (Jim McCulloch) wrote:

>How about the astonishing number of rapes resisted with firearms?  I
>would have to look the figure up, but as I recall it Kleck is obliged
>to claim an implausibly huge percentage of attempted rapes in this
>country were resisted with guns.  There is an independent account of
>the number of attempted rapes, you know, provided courtesy of the
>NCVS.  The NSPOF survey (which basically used Kleck's methodology),
>elicited results in which the number of rapes resisted with guns was
>*greater* than the total number of rapes and attempted rapes reported
>by the NCVS.  

Any rational person who successfully fended off an attempted rape in a
gun-controlled city would not report either the attempt or the DGU.
In some cities, the police actively discourage _any_ self-defence, and
being investigated for a possibly illegal DGU is worse than giving up
the slim chance that a potential rapist gets caught.

Anthony Argyriou