Gary Kleck (born March 2, 1951) is a criminologist at Florida State University who is an expert on the links between guns, violence and gun control laws in the United States. is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. ... Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[6] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ...
Dr. Gary Kleck, FSU Criminologist, with FDLE firearms display
He has done statistical analysis of crime in the United States and argues that while in 1993 there were about four hundred thousand crimes committed with guns, there were approximately 2.5 million crimes in which victims used guns for self-protection. These data have however been severely criticized on methodological grounds. His figures for the amount of self-defense gun usage are roughly 20 times higher than those indicated by the National Crime Victimization Surveys (NCVS). In order to arrive at Kleck's estimate, one has to believe that nineteen of every twenty self-defense gun uses are in fact never reported to police. The NCVS works only from cases that can be verified through police data. Kleck's survey data have no such mode of verification and it seems very likely that many of the self-defense uses he reports are in fact illegal acts or exaggeration on the part of the reporter. For example, he finds that more than 46% of those reporting self-defense gun use claimed that they likely saved someone from dying. This would mean literally hundreds of thousands of murders are being prevented directly by self-defense gun use every year, an astounding claim given that the actual average number of murders in the US per year between 1980 and 2004 was just under 20,000. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x901, 75 KB)Licensing: Leader: kmKa0n Fixed field data: kh bo Local call number: mf0145 Personal Author: Foley, Mark. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (600x901, 75 KB)Licensing: Leader: kmKa0n Fixed field data: kh bo Local call number: mf0145 Personal Author: Foley, Mark. ...
In 1993, Kleck won the Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology for his book Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America.
KLECK: Well, the survey mostly generated results pretty consistent with those of a dozen previous surveys which generally indicates that defensive use of guns is pretty common and probably more common than criminal uses of guns.
KLECK: We had a total of 4,978 completed interviews, that is, where we had a response on the key question of whether or not there had been a defensive gun use.
KLECK: We asked them whether they carried guns at any time but we didn't directly ask them if they were carrying guns, in the legal sense, at the time they had used their gun defensively.
According to the Social Security Administration, Gary was relatively rare as a given name in the 1900-1920s period (e.g., in the 1910s it was the 677th most frequent name, given to less than 0.01% of the babies born in that decade).
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