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Originally posted by SuperMidget
Once more for those that ignored my earlier post.
In 1986 Kellerman did a study on the use of firearms kept in the home. He found that for every self-defense/justified shoot, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 murders, and 37 suicides.
Can we draw conclusions from this? Nope, because there is nothing to correlate against. All this ratio measures is a breakdown of self-defense/justified homicide against every other firearm related death. Like I said before, none of the categories actually correlate against one another, but it sounds better to say "You're 43 times more likely to kill a family member." Then HCI comes along and bumps the number to 500 and thank you Miss Brady.
(I spelled it right this time Kadath)
Source:
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdgaga.html
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Thanks for the revised statistics supermidget. Still, '43 times more likely to kill a family member' is super scary, and in my opinon is a telling statistic about the prevalence of guns in society. Do you think more guns will make a safer America?