Your understanding of what that says is wrong. Of course guns kept in the home do most of the killing, are there other places gun owners should leave their guns? What are the statistics of guns left out on the sidewalk? What are the statistics about guns being kept in the US Bank vault 200 feet below the surface in Spokane, Wa?
What? You mean there aren't any? You mean to tell me that people live in homes and keep their personal stuff in them? You don't say?
Did you know that knives that are owned by people and stored in a home do way more damage to people than knives that aren't owned by people and are stored in some other location far away from where the person usually is?
Did you know that?
You are being fooled by statistics that have been construed to bring about poor judgment by people with weak minds that are unable to see through the fog.
I mean even the headline is fucked up, it gives the image that owning a gun in your home kills people, it doesn't. A gun has never killed a single person, people kill people and people buy guns and keep them in their home with the rest of their expensive stuff.
Most of your statistic is suicide, so throw that out, you can't stop someone from killing themselves.
Wow, I simply pointed out that the preponderance of information gathered to date shows that most people are much more likely to injure themselves or the people around them with their firearm than they are to defend or protect themselves. You seem to be very upset that anybody has the gall to cite a report from a well done study that conflicts with NRA and gun lobby propaganda. Rather than shout me down, how about using some reasoning skills and try to convince.
That said, I am very much for you owning your guns. They make it much more likely that one day you may turn it on yourself.
So, here is another report that says you are wrong. In this case, they noted that gun owners were MORE LIKELY to be shot or killed in an assault:
Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault
Charles C. Branas, PhD, Therese S. Richmond, PhD, CRNP, Dennis P. Culhane, PhD, Thomas R. Ten Have, PhD, MPH, and Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD
American Journal of Public Health > November 2009 > Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault Advanced Search
Read More:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099?journalCode=ajph
Objectives. We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time.
Methods. We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables.
Results. After adjustment, individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (
P < .05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession. Among gun assaults where the victim had at least some chance to resist, this adjusted odds ratio increased to 5.45 (
P < .05).
Conclusions. On average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. Although successful defensive gun uses occur each year, the probability of success may be low for civilian gun users in urban areas. Such users should reconsider their possession of guns or, at least, understand that regular possession necessitates careful safety countermeasures.
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http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143099?journalCode=ajph
