Michael J. Phelps writes:
Wright (1983) compare handgun attacks with long bladed knife attacks;
as do Wilson & Sherman (1961 p 643) with findings of:mortality rate for handguns: 16.8% ice picks: 14.3 butcher knives: 13.3
Kleck has made a dishonest selection of data from Wilson & Sherman:
from the same table that the figures above were plucked from:
rifles: 7.7
Unless you think that handguns are twice as deadly as rifles, this should be a clue that something is very wrong. (Another clue, free of charge: 2/15=13.3% and 2/14=14.3%)
[note that these rates don't address untreated woundings, so the 16%
handgun mortality rate correlates well with Cook's 15%]
They also don't address untreated DEATHs, so the comparison is bogus.
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Point Blank, by Gary Kleck, pg 165, citing a study by Wilson and Sherman, 1961:
"At least one medical study compared very similar sets of wounds ('all were
penetrating wounds of the abdomen'), and found that the mortality rate in
pistol wounds was 16.8%, while the rate was 14.3% for ice pick wounds…
(C. D. Tavares) writes:
Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice, Second Edition, U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ-105506,
March 1988.
For 1985, for robbery and assaults, the following is how
many incidents involved a firearm and how many involved a knife.…
Peter Proctor wrote:
An equivalent wound is ( by definition ) an equivalent wound .
Absent LET effects, it doesn't matter much where it came from.
Oh, so your statement was a tautology? By "equivalent", you meant of
equivalent lethality?
Hole, I meant an equivalent hole. Pretty simple…
HerrGlock writes:
Oh hell, now I'm going to have to dig up that study. There's a study
done that shows long guns are more likely to have an
accidental/negligent shooting than are handguns. Something along the
lines of 4 to 1.
Try 1 to 4. Handguns are four times as likely to be involved in an…