New Study on Defensive Gun Use

Looks like there has been a new study. I found out about it at the link below.

The summaries are favorable. If I understand what is being presented, Clayton Cramer is one of the authors.

Read the blog entry for Monday 2/6/12. Note the part about disarmings. Its not the victims being disarmed! A much higher percentage is victims disarming the criminal!!

http://www.theagitator.com/

Try this link to see the white paper itself: http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/78800063

Why not use the original source instead of some silly blog?

http://www.cato.org/guns-and-self-defense/

Daylen said:

Why not use the original source instead of some silly blog?

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I take issue with the characterization of Radley Balko's blog as "silly".

If I want to reference this study in my research paper on carry rights this semester (which I am now lol), referencing a blog would be silly.

SovereignAxe said:

If I want to reference this study in my research paper on carry rights this semester (which I am now lol), referencing a blog would be silly.

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But reading it certainly would not be. Hence, my issue.

marshaul said:

But reading it certainly would not be. Hence, my issue.

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Blogs in general are silly, I meant to particular offense against this one. Plus the title of the thread was about a study, something I find interesting, referencing a blog that references a study is not very nice, nor the proper way of referencing.

Daylen said:

Blogs in general are silly, I meant to particular offense against this one. Plus the title of the thread was about a study, something I find interesting, referencing a blog that references a study is not very nice, nor the proper way of referencing.

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Fair enough.

I don't blame Citizen, though. I'm sure he saw it there, and I would probably be inclined to share it the same way. The Agitator is one of a few blogs I like -- the format is ideal for keeping me informed on the latest litany of police excess. I wish more people paid attention.

Thanks for the support, fellas.

The real reason I didn't link directly to the study, etc, is much simpler. I just didn't have time. Notice that I mentioned the summary, and quoted from the blog, not the study itself.

All I had time for was a quick skim of the blog post. In fact, I came near as a whisper to just not mentioning it at all. But, I also realized that by the time I got back to that blog, the blog entry would move down the screen, and I could easily lose track of it, so I went ahead and made post I did. Quite simply, if I had more time, I would've just read the study myself, quoted directly from it myself, told y'all my opinion of it, and posted the link directly to it.

But, I figured readers here could pounce on it in the meantime.

well, I'm glad you did. more data to support my research