g lower animals is arguably the humans greater technological capacity to inflict harm on another creature. These tools of death are readily available to humans and are vastly more lethal than even the most deadly natural equipment of any other species (Kleck, 670). Yet, little is known about the impact of weaponry on violence or how weaponry is used to coerce compliance in hostile social encounters. Firearms are seen as violence enhancing devices, it is just assumed that the possession along with the use of firearms increase the chances of the victim to be injured or killed. However, a broader view must be taken and firearms must be seen as a source of power. For without these devices a nation such as the United States would probably never have been free from rule. Little is known due to the previous studies on this issue all suffered from one of the four problems. The first problem is all studies using cases known to the police all are biased regarding the dependent variable. This happens by incidents of minor violence being omitted from the database or did not bother to be reported due to the low significance level. The second problem is studies usually examine local samples (single city or area). The problem with this, when looking at the larger picture, is weaponry varies sharply across localities, not just in general availability. The third problem is unsophisticated; by this it is meant that they rely on simple percentage table methods. The final problem is that prior research on real-life violence has ignored the distinction between the effects of weapons on whether the aggressor attacks and whether an attack is completed. Either only attack is studied or both are combined together (attack and injury variables) for one category labeled injury (Kleck, 677).As time passes by, improvements in fields of research gives you better methods of studying and comparing variables. Gary Kleck and Karen Mcelrath used two data sets for this res...
