dkuddeth - I don't feel flamed at all. Here are the studies that you've apparently missed.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/f...s/pdf/home.pdf
I expect that you'll want to disregard this as irrelevant since its coming from the Brady Campaign, but this page is actually clearing house for studies by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC, the National Opinion Research Center and the Gallup Organization. Pretty mainstream organizations.
The scariest statistic for me is that 43% of homes with kids under 17 keep a gun in the house and 28% of the 43% keep at least one gun unlocked and hidden. In other words, 12% of homes with kids keep an unsecured gun somewhere in the house. That is the reason that there are so many accidental shooting involving children in this country.
For the record, I'm not against guns at all. I just think that there need to be more requirements for a certain level of competency and responsibility involved. I also think that drivers licenses should be harder to get too, for that matter.