SOTW

Sort of like Quote of the week, except this is for the Statistic of the week.

From the studies somewhere between 85,000 and 130,000 criminals are shot at each year as they pursue their trade.
“Bullet burns” and graze wounds aside, bullets strike home in 7,500 to 12,000 would be perpetrators.
Between 1,100 and 1,800 of the perps do not survive the experience. And the results of all of this – can be seen in the Bureau of Justice Statistics graphic on the right, which shows a 75% decline in violent crime since 1993.

Weather or not the injuries inflicted on criminals affects the number of people willing to risk said injuries and to what degree is possibly a nice topic for an anthropology major.

Got this from Gun Watch who has all sorts of interesting anecdotes.