"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>: > > - Eric Raymond extended the pstats module with a simple interactive > > statistics browser, invoked when the module is run as a script. For which we owe Eric S. Raymond, and all the other contributors to Python 2.1, many thanks. However, Eric's posting come with the following .sig postscript: > According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of > the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that > only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, > as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These > percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively > comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if > they used other means of resistance. > -- G. Kleck, "Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research," Now, I think that the juxtaposition of Eric's open source advocacy, and more recently, Python advocacy, with his pro-gun and anti-gun control social (and possibly political) activism is very unfortunate. However, it is not appropriate to argue this point in this forum. But I do feel obliged to point out that Eric is being a bit disingenuous by not giving the full reference for his quote from Gary Kleck's paper. This is particularly so given the use of the word "recent" in the title of the paper which Eric quotes. In fact, the full reference is: Kleck, Gary. "Policy Lessons from Recent Gun Control Research. (Gun Control Symposium)." Law and Contemporary Problems 49, no. 1. (Winter 1986.): 35-62. Clearly the use of the adjective "recent" in the title of the paper is somewhat relative. Given the publication date of 1986, and considering publication delays, it is reasonable to assume that the statistics which Gary Kleck quotes date from a survey performed in the early 1980s. Perhaps Eric, who no doubt has access to the full text of this article since he is quoting from it, could enlighten us on this point? In any case, data which is recent in the more usual sense of the word does appears to be available - for example see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv99.htm Tim Churches Sydney, Australia
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