Baraka_Guru

Accessibility is an issue:

Accessibility to firearms, particularly handguns, influences the rate of teen suicides. Handguns were used in nearly 70% of teen suicides in 1990, up 20% since 1970. A home with a handgun is almost ten times more likely to have a teen suicide than a home without. If you have a gun, please take every precaution when storing it.

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"...please take every precaution when storing it." (i.e. Make is as though it weren't there at all.) The sad truth is, this isn't being done nearly enough.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/thesilentepidemic...tors/guns.html
(I will dig up more recent statistics upon request.)

So, the fact remains, regardless, that 46% of homicides of women in the home are committed with firearms. Does this mean it is the leading method? It appears so.

In the USA, a gun in the home increases the risk that someone in the household will be murdered by 41%; but increases the risk for women by 272%;

It isn't an isolated problem:

In France and South Africa, one in three women killed by their husbands are shot; in the USA this rises to two in three;

Source: http://www.iansa.org/women/vaw/guns-women-en.pdf


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Are you saying there is only one study? Are you suggesting that there isn't any other data? Who told you that, exactly?

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