Re: Shooting of Japanese student did happen

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Harvey Newstrom <mailto://newstrom@newstaffinc.com> <http://newstaffinc.com>
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Michael S. Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com> wrote:
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> A kid taking a parent's gun without permission is a stolen gun.


Agreed.



> Handguns themselves are not licensed. The owners are licensed to carry

concealed


> weapons.


Agreed.



> Someone who is not licensed to carry concealed and does is committing

> an unlicensed act. If its not their gun and the owner did not give them

> permission to have it, it is theft, and is therefore criminally obtained.


Agreed.  But this is an example of a legally-obtained gun being used in the
commission of a crime.  The study claimed that the incidence of this was
very low.  Careful reading of the study showed that they excluded stolen
guns from being counted.  Since most criminals have illegally-obtained guns,
the study excluded almost all gun crime statistics from their numbers.

I am not objecting to any specific claim of yours.  I am merely pointing out
that this study did not look at most crime numbers, but was carefully
crafted to produce the unrealistic numbers being quoted.  As I have said
before, I am not anti-gun, but I am anti-misleading-statistics.

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