Burglars and Shooting to Wound

A couple interesting articles from The Truth About Guns for your lunch-time read.

First up, TTAG summarizes research performed by The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology on behalf of the Electronic Security Association (an association of alarm manufacturers). The study interviewed a sample of prisoners from three states incarcerated for burglaries. Among the findings is that nearly 10% of the burglars had also been charged with homicide; 88% resorted to burglary to support drug habits and most were using substances when they committed the burglary; and only 1/4 worked alone (i.e., 3/4 worked with someone else). (A PDF of the study is available here).

The second article discusses why it is not only generally impossible to "shoot to wound" by why it is undesirable to do so.