Re: Gun control and rape - The myths and the facts


"Brian" <workinwifdakids@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You could argue that tactical nuclear weapons don't stop rape, because
> victims of rape didn't use them to avert the attack. The fact is,
> these women don't use guns to stop sexual attacks because THEY CAN'T
> GET A CONCEALED WEAPONS PERMIT!

These ones could:





"From October 1966 to March 1967 the Orlando Police
Department

trained more than 2500 women to use guns (Krug 1968), Organized in

response to demands from citizens worried about a sharp increase in

rape, this was an unusually large and highly publicized program. It

received several front page stories in the local daily newspaper, the

Orlando Sentinel, a co-sponsor of the program. An interrupted time

series analysis of Orlando crime trends showed that the rape rate

decreased by 88% in 1967, compared to 1966, a decrease far larger than

in any previous 1-year period.....



A much smaller training program was conducted with only 138 people from

September through November 1967 by the Kansas City (Missouri) police, in

response to retail businessmen's concerns about store robberies (U.S.

Small Business Administration 1969, pp253-6).....Whereas the frequency

of robbery increased sharply from 1967 to 1968 by 35% in the rest of

Missouri, 20% in the region and 30% in the United States, it essentially

leveled off in Kansas City and declined by 13% in surrounding areas,

even though robberies had been increasing in the 5 years prior to the

training program and continued to decrease in 1968....



These two gun training episodes are not unique. They resemble instances

of crime drops following gun training programs elsewhere, including

decreases in grocery robberies in Detroit after a grocer's organization

began gun clinics, and decreases in retail robberies in Highland Park,

Michigan, attributed to "gun-toting merchants" (Krug 1968, p H571)."





(1) "Point Blank", Kleck, 1991, pages 134-135


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