--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy/Guns_in_Home.pdf
>
> Many people who own guns keep them primarily for hunting or
> recreation; many keep them for self defense. This is particularly
> the case among handgun owners.3 Although many gun owners keep a gun
> in the home for protection, studies have shown that guns are rarely
> used for this purpose4 and that the risks of keeping a gun in the
> home outweigh the benefits. In fact, in homes with guns, the
> homicide of a household member is almost 3 times more likely to
> occur than in homes without guns.5 The risk of a family member�s
> suicide is increased by nearly 5 times in homes with guns; the risk
> of suicide is higher still for adolescents and young adults.6
> Having a gun in the home also increases the risk that incidents of
> domestic violence will result in homicide. Family and intimate
> assaults involving firearms are 12 times more likely to result in
> death than nonfirearm-related assaults.7
So what your sayig is, that if you are in a family where domestic violence is
more likely to occure, don't buy a gun becouse someone might end up dead?
If you beat you wife, don't buy a gun becouse she might kill you with it.
If you are prone to deep depression don't buy a gun becouse it will make
suicide easier.
What is the usual case? Is it gun toting wife beaters killing their wife, or
gun toting beaten wives defending themseleves? It makes a difference.
Are these numbers counting suicide by gun or all suicides? If it's all
suicided is it taking into acount the likelyhood of attempted suicide? Is
this saying that guns are more effective means of suicide or somehow the
existence of the gun in the home is causing more people to commit suicide?
Was there a control study on the likelyhood of homicide, suicide, etc. for
other housholde items? Was the rate higher for housholds with stake knives?
to those that only had case knives? Baseball Bats? wide screen TV? low flow
toilets? staked washer and dryers? Icecream? rat poison? insectiside? lawn
mowers? fire places? oven mits? suround sound? florecent lighting? dogs? cars
with and without political bumperstikers?
Has anyone done a statistical study on the number of homes which were invaded
where the residents were harmed and unharmed and the relation of an easily
accesible gun?
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