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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
So I guess that you're telling me that the CDC studies were politically motivated (footnote for the number of gun deaths in 2002 showing most were suicides or accidents) as was the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control?
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All CDC studies are politically motivated. It is just a matter of the current administration and DoJ wants and needs at the time.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
And for the record, I don't think that I ever mentioned anything about a handgun being turned against the user who was using it as a defensive weapon.
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That was my misunderstanding. My apologies.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
My point was on general use, not specific home protection. From the CDC study alone (and I understand that it is restricted to fatalities only), a gun is more likely to be used accidentially or in a suicide. Again, the data backs up my point that guns are more likely to be used against a resident than an intruder, and even that is accepting the outlandish idea that all of the deaths counted by CDC were home intruders and not incidents of domestic violence.
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The data would suggest that ANY home with a gun represents a higher risk of danger to the resident, however, the premise is fundamentally flawed because it doesn't address the issue of responsibility of the gun owner. It just lumps it all together and magically spits out a theory that guns in the home are bad. In actuality, guns in the hands of irresponsible idiots is how the report should read and then it should equate them to the number of accidents in the homes of responsible owners. That would be a better reasoned comparison of one vs. the other.