how many of you CA residents plan to register your "assault rifles"

[pablo_marmol]

57. W/regard to Kleck's methodology:

"yes I used my gun for defense, someone knocked on my door after 9pm so I got my gun"

This would not, in and of itself, have been accepted as a defensive gun use. Those who claimed a DGU were asked permission to record statements that followed for later study, and the number of questions that followed would likely give away someone who attempted to "lie on the fly".

I can't speak for the number of surveys that supported the Kleck/Gertz project. Even "control" supporters Cook & Ludwig came up with 1.5 million DGU's a year --- upon which they belatedly came to the conclusion that all DGU surveys were useless. Interesting, that. Hard to imagine that they would have dismissed their own work had they discovered low numbers of DGU's. That's the way The Controllers roll.