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A 15-year old boy used his father’s AR-15 to defend himself and his 12-year old sister against two burglars at their home just north of Houston, Texas.
Their father is a Harris County Precinct 1 deputy constable, and the boy knew what he had to do to keep himself and his sister alive. Around 2:30 PM, two men tried to break in, with one going through the front door and the other in the back.
“We don't try to hide things from our children in law enforcement,” Lt. Jeffrey Stauber said. “That young boy was protecting his sister. He was in fear for his life and her life.”
- For every use of a gun to commit a crime, there are three-to-four cases of guns being used in self-defense of a crime.
- Assault and robbery rates are lower when victims are armed with a gun.
- A gun is used in self-defense to protect its owner from crime 2.5 million times per year, an average of once every 13 seconds.
- Fifteen percent of the gun defenders interviewed believed someone would have died if they had not been armed. If true, that’s an average of one life saved due to firearm self-defense every 1.3 minutes.
- In nearly 75% of the cases, the victim did not know his attackers. In nearly 50% of the cases, he faced at least two attackers and in nearly 25% of the cases, there were three or more attackers. A quarter of the incidents of self-defense occurred away from the home.
Education
Ph.D. 1979, University of Illinois at Urbana; Sociology
M.A. 1975, University of Illinois at Urbana; Sociology
B.A. 1973, University of Illinois, with High Honors and with Distinction; Sociology
Courses Taught
Research Design and Causal Inference
Survey Research
Criminology
Applied Statistics
Regression
Introduction to Research Methods
Law Enforcement
Research Methods in Criminology
Violence Theory Seminar
Crime Control
Assessing Evidence
Guns and Violence
Kleck's recent research on illegal gun markets has found that organized gun trafficking is largely irrelevant to the arming of America's criminals, and that high-volume trafficking is virtually nonexistent. Instead, gun theft is central to the channeling of guns into criminal hands. Other recent research has found that higher general gun ownership rates reduce homicide rates, probably because the violence-reducing effects of guns among noncriminal victims and prospective victims outweigh the violence-increasing effects of guns among criminals.
Originally posted by antonia
I'm glad they are ok, but seriously CAPS is not cruise control for cool.
Anyway on to the subject matter. I don't think there is some overbearing media conspiracy to take everyone's guns away. It's just a hot topic right now and it sells ad space. When it's not the topic du jour I'm sure they will take up whatever else crops up. People will stop talking about it here and things will calm down.
There is no danger of a gun ban. The democrats could never pass anything in the house and even if they got something through the senate the house would shoot it down. Everyone can chillax.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Im not anti-gun but how is it self defense if he want being attacked?
Originally posted by daaskapital
A kid...wielding an AR-15...that is crazy.
Why would his father even teach his kid how to wield an assault rifle...out of all things. A pistol would have been more sufficient...
Originally posted by daaskapital
A kid...wielding an AR-15...that is crazy.
Why would his father even teach his kid how to wield an assault rifle...out of all things. A pistol would have been more sufficient...
Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Originally posted by daaskapital
A kid...wielding an AR-15...that is crazy.
Why would his father even teach his kid how to wield an assault rifle...out of all things. A pistol would have been more sufficient...
It's a damned good thing he did teach him how to responsibly use a firearm - otherwise, as the OP mentioned, we might be reading a story about 2 dead or missing kids.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
Im not anti-gun but how is it self defense if he want being attacked?
Also why wasnt the gun locked up?edit on 10-1-2013 by PhoenixOD because: (no reason given)
A pistol would have been more sufficient...