http://www1.abqtrib.com/albq/special/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19878_4352195,00.html
This provides summaries for each of those cases, e.g.:
From the viewpoint of gathering data, it's interesting to read these and note how many are knifings/shootings/other, how many involve multiple assailants, how many were domestic disturbances and how many weren't, and so on. Of course, this only reflects cases that ended in a fatality! Still, if you aren't involved in drugs or involved with an abusive domestic partner, and stay out of arguments (not that all these things are entirely within one's control), it seems to really improve your odds--the number of random street robberies that so many of us imagine being our biggest threat seems to be relatively low, and many of them involve guns so that martial arts training would be of less use than in a case not involving weapons.
But those robberies, carjackings, random attacks by the mentally ill, and sexual assaults do appear on that list, and not all of those cases listed as due to "argument" are necessarily ones in which the victim had a chance to avoid the argument. In some cases it appears that the victim was attempting to defend a family member from an abusive spouse/parent, as in the example quoted above.
It would be interesting to see data for all assaults. Recent stories point to a rise in meth-related crime here. We have had that in Indiana for a while but now it's growing here in NM. The number of shootings on the list makes a concealed carry permit start to sound more attractive. There was a prominent case of defense of another by a concealed weapon user in the state this year:
This provides summaries for each of those cases, e.g.:
From the viewpoint of gathering data, it's interesting to read these and note how many are knifings/shootings/other, how many involve multiple assailants, how many were domestic disturbances and how many weren't, and so on. Of course, this only reflects cases that ended in a fatality! Still, if you aren't involved in drugs or involved with an abusive domestic partner, and stay out of arguments (not that all these things are entirely within one's control), it seems to really improve your odds--the number of random street robberies that so many of us imagine being our biggest threat seems to be relatively low, and many of them involve guns so that martial arts training would be of less use than in a case not involving weapons.
But those robberies, carjackings, random attacks by the mentally ill, and sexual assaults do appear on that list, and not all of those cases listed as due to "argument" are necessarily ones in which the victim had a chance to avoid the argument. In some cases it appears that the victim was attempting to defend a family member from an abusive spouse/parent, as in the example quoted above.
It would be interesting to see data for all assaults. Recent stories point to a rise in meth-related crime here. We have had that in Indiana for a while but now it's growing here in NM. The number of shootings on the list makes a concealed carry permit start to sound more attractive. There was a prominent case of defense of another by a concealed weapon user in the state this year:
