The results of robbery, with and without self-defense

An interesting fact, from “Guns Kill…Bad People,” by Larry Elder at FrontPage Magazine:

Former assistant district attorney and firearms expert David Kopel writes, “[W]hen a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery—from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing—produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 04, 2005 04:52 PM | Send