Kellermann performed multivariate analysis to isolate the risk associated with keeping a gun in the home and found it was significant.
Another relevant study: "During the study interval (12 months in Memphis, 18 months in Seattle, and Galveston) 626 shootings occurred in or around a residence. This total included 54 unintentional shootings, 118 attempted or completed suicides, and 438 assaults/homicides. Thirteen shootings were legally justifiable or an act of self-defense, including three that involved law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/ A ratio of 22 misuses of guns to 1 defensive use of a gun is genuinely disturbing.
Used in self defense is narrowly defined in that study and does not delineate between LEGAL gun owners and criminals who already violate 18 USC 922 and state laws by merely having the weapons. Suicide is not relevant to a crime control debate
BTW that Study only included defensive gun uses as when the weapon was fired at an intruder. thus it is completely bogus because MOST DGUs do not involve the citizen actually shooting the criminal Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.
He found it barely over the minimum to be even significant. Fewer than half of the victims were killed by firearms. Here are the variables with values high enough to make the list, and their associated risks: "The use of illicit drugs and a history of physical fights in the home are also important risk factors. " Criminals. "Underreporting of gun ownership by control respondents could bias our estimate of risk upward. We do not believe, however, that misreporting of gun ownership was a problem." Kellermann also looked at just three urban communties, using those to extrapolate data for the population at large. "Shelby County, Tennessee; King County, Washington; and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are the most populous counties in their respective states. "
The significance level was 95%. There's nothing unusual about that. The study found that keeping a gun at home was associated with an increased of risk of homicide by a family member or an intimate acquaintance but there was no increased risk of homicide by acquaintances, unidentified intruders, or strangers. The increased risk of homicide was due to an increased risk of gun homicide. Kellermann performed stratified analyses and found that this held true for several subgroups (blacks, whites, men, women, old people, young people). No evidence of any protective benefit at all was found due to a gun kept in the home: No subgroup was less likely to be murdered due to living in a home where a gun was kept.
Guns must be trained from conception not to hurt anyone. My guns are very well behaved and have never hurt anyone.
Pretty much. When he excluded homes where residents had a history of illegal drug use, prior arrests, or domestic violence he found the increased risk associated with guns still existed.
It's rejected by people who actually research the issue as opposed to clowns who are paid to attack gun ownership and then manufacture findings designed to do that
What would the delta have been if he had included these? Much less of a factor, I'd warrant. According to his data, it's still a much smaller risk than renting or living alone.
what is really amusing is the attitude that anti gun advocates have-they want to deny us gun owners the CHOICE to own guns based on their own =and almost always-ignorant-belief that they know better what is "good" for us than we do for ourselves. But when it comes to other issues, they scream CHOICE.
My guns will be very happy when they see what's under the tree this Christmas... slings, red dot sights, "piggy back" cartridge carriers, lots of high capacity magazines, some great new lubrication products... there will be some happy firearms!
Have you tried Shooter's Lube solvent yet? Stuff works great. They have an oil as well but I tend to use only grease so I haven't tried that yet.
I assume you mean by stopping an assault (or worse) by holding the perpetrator for the cops at gunpoint.
