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The thing that makes me extremely skeptical of these numbers is that I don't know a single gun owner who carries his/her gun outside the house unless the trip is to use the gun (to hunt or for target shooting). The vast majority of crimes against individuals are not perpetrated against people who are at home with their guns. For these numbers to be right I suspect there would have to be a whole lot more people carrying concealed weapons or a whole lot more home invasions that statistics would suggest. - - Bill DickensI'm not sure of just how the figures are stated. What about business owners in high crime neighborhoods? I can imagine lots of cases where the owner has a gun behind the counter or wherever, pulls it, and the person trying to rob him leaves.
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David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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