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Originally posted by almostaugust
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?
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These are not revised. They are taken from the exact same paper that the Anti's (for lack of a better term) get the 500x number. All I did was point out the real number and clarify the meaning. I see I got the number corrected, but I don't believe (correct me if I'm wrong) I cleared up the meaning.
All the 43 means is that for every justified homicide/self-defense shoot, there are 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 Suicides.
There is nothing in it that means you are 43x more likely to shoot a family member. All it is is a breakdown of the deaths compared to justified homicide.
Plainly, for every justified homicide/self-defense shoot, there are 43
OTHER firearm related deaths. No correlation.
Forgive me if this point was previously understood, but the way I read your post almostaugust, it seems you didn't get the intent behind my explanation. As always feel free to rebut/request clarification.
Edit: This study was done in 1986. About the time the first states were begining to go to Shall-issue CCW. It was meant to scare people.