This is the name of an article at http://www.newswithviews.com/Nemerov/howard2.htm . It gives some numbers and comparisons of justifiable homicides by both police and citizens, based on data collected by the FBI (in this case, for the year 2006). You may find it interesting. An excerpt:
He also notes that rates of violent crime in general and murder in particular are lower in RTC states than non-RTC states.In RTC [Right to Carry] states, for every 100 citizen JH [Justifiable Homicides] there were 116 police JH, closer to a one-to-one ratio. In non-RTC states, for every 100 citizen JH there were 282 police JH, nearly a three-to-one ratio. In RTC states, civilian justifiable homicides were relatively more common when compared to the number of police justifiable homicides.
He goes on to conclude that the police in RTC states derive protection from the fact that citizens have RTC.
The author's name had not stuck in my memory, but looks like I should have heard of him already:
Go check it out.Howard Nemerov is a “recovering� gun control supporter. He began to research the issue of gun control on his own, and what he found transformed his perspective. Now he writes to help gun owners become better emissaries when talking about gun rights, and to help undecided people understand the underlying principles of the right to self-defense.
Howard is a contributor for the Texas State Rifle Association’s “TSRA Sportsman� and appears frequently on NRA News as an Analyst At Large, talking about gun control and its threat to our way of life and liberty. His new book is “Four Hundred Years of Gun Control: Why Isn’t It Working?� Where the emphasis has been on rhetoric and legislation, this book includes extensive data analysis from neutral and even pro-gun-control sources to determine if the rhetoric is true, and if the laws have worked...after Four Hundred Years.
