By John R. Lott Jr.
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Successful airplane take-offs and landings do not. The importance of newsworthiness can be seen in other ways. For example, even though fewer than one out of 1,000 defensive gun uses result in the attacker’s death, “newsworthiness” means the media will only cover the bloodier cases, where the attacker is virtually always shot and usually killed. 4 Newsworthiness might explain the majority of negative media stories on guns, but it doesn’t explain all of them. For example, as I discussed in detail in my previous book, More Guns, Less Crime, why did the torrential news coverage of public school shootings in the 1990s fail to acknowledge when attacks were halted by citizens with guns?
Lightweight, stopping power) also benefit potential victims of crime. Reducing Illegal Firearms Trafficking is a ninety-six-page monograph that attempts to justify the tracing of guns obtained from crimes back to their original owners—simply by listing the harm done with guns in general. Other than a few anecdotal stories, no evidence is provided that tracing programs even reduce crime, let alone evidence that tracing is the most cost-effective method in reducing crime. There ought to be evidence one way or the other, considering that hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on tracing, and the program had been in place for seven years when the study was released in 2000.
Five guys get out and start running toward [the victim]. ” After being pulled from his car, the victim shot one attacker in the chest, wounding him. A police officer said: “If you have a concealed weapons permit, that’s what it’s for . . it very easily saved [the victim’s] life. . 24 — Tampa, Florida: Two teenage armed robbers committed a four-hour crime spree, carjacking cars, robbing people, and hospitalizing one victim with serious injuries. They were only stopped by one intended victim, a pizza store owner who shot and wounded one attacker.
