From: [m--et--e] at [csi.jpl.nasa.gov] (Matt Wette)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Gary Kleck honored
Date: 12 Jan 1994 18:46:52 -0800

From American Rifleman, Jan. '94, p. 7:

	Gary Kleck Honored

	Gary Kleck, Ph.D., the author of `Point Blank: Gunas and Violence
	in America,' the major scholarly study of guns in America in this
	decade, is winner of the the 1993 Hindelang Award from the
	American Society of Criminology for "the book published in the 
	past two years that makes the most outstanding contribution to
	criminology."

	Dr. Kleck, who now estimates there are as many as 2.1 million 
	defensive uses of firearms each year in America, is a professor
	in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida 
	State University, Tallahassee.  His book was published by Aldine
	de Gruyter Publishing Co., 200 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne,
	N.Y. 10532, at $59.95.  Kleck's finding are of great importance
	because they undercut the orchestrated campaign to convince 
	Americans that keeping guns in their homes is more dangerous to
	families and friends than to felons.


Matt
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