On Tuesday 10 October 2006 18:16, Net Llama! wrote: > > Therefore..... I don't have a lot of faith in the information or the > > intent of the website owner. > > Admittedly, I couldn't find anything either. however, they did provide > documented sources for all of their information, so its safe to base it on > the veracity of the sources.
Here's a statement of the results of one survey on the guninformation.org site: "Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home" (NE Journal of Medicine) Doesn't sound to me like a very valid survey when trying to find out whether law-abiding citizens should not have guns. The people in this survey were already breaking laws.... more gun control laws wouldn't affect them at all. ------------------- Results During the study period, 1860 homicides occurred in the three counties, 444 of them (23.9 percent) in the home of the victim. After excluding 24 cases for various reasons, we interviewed proxy respondents for 93 percent of the victims. Controls were identified for 99 percent of these, yielding 388 matched pairs. As compared with the controls, the victims more often lived alone or rented their residence. Also, case households more commonly contained an illicit-drug user, a person with prior arrests, or someone who had been hit or hurt in a fight in the home. After controlling for these characteristics, we found that keeping a gun in the home was strongly and independently associated with an increased risk of homicide (adjusted odds ratio, 2.7; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.6 to 4.4). Virtually all of this risk involved homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance. Conclusions The use of illicit drugs and a history of physical fights in the home are important risk factors for homicide in the home. Rather than confer protection, guns kept in the home are associated with an increase in the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance. ----------- _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
