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The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the …

The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. [For men] offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than resisting with a gun.

Wall Street Journal, November 11, 1998