In a review of The Bias Against Guns, Pat Buchanan claims that Kleck's survey found that
11 out of every 12 times citizens use their guns in self-defense, they merely brandish them or fire a warning shot.
and that this was "confirmed" by Lott:
Brandishing a gun stops crime 95 percent of the time, Lott learned.
Buchanan doesn't seemed to have noticed that Lott's 95% brandishing number, far from confirming Kleck, contradicts Kleck's 11/12. Buchanan also got the number from Kleck wrong. Kleck found that 84% involved brandishing or a warning shot and 76% involved just brandishing, making the disagreement with Kleck even larger.
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So, was the attribution of the 98% to Kleck's study in the Lott quote below made by Lott, or did Dave Kopel add it?
Peter Boucher writes:
Just in case anyone's interested.
Copied from Kleck/Gertz, here are the polls from table 1
(minus those with no estimate of annual DGUs):
Survey, Where, What year, What kinds of guns, # DGUs
Dr. Paul H. Blackman writes:
Ray wrote: