Most American gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, but a study published this week suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
It found that the absolute risk of living with a handgun owner was small, Studdert said, and that “the rates [of homicide] are low”. But it was important to consider the increase in a person’s risk of being killed, he added. In particular, the researchers found, people who lived with handgun owners had a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims, 84%, were women, they said.Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found.
California is unusual in that it offers gun ownership data and other information not obtainable in almost any other state. That allowed the researchers to follow millions of people over many years to try to better establish what happened when a person began living in a home with a handgun, they said.
Of course the movement was to encompass of all things handguns, the subject covered by the band Rage Against the Machine. Another over qualified band was the band Guns N' Roses, Guns N' Roses touching on the subject with the timeless track Get in the Ring.
Of course the movement was to encompass of all things, handguns that was covered by the band Rage Against the Machine. Another band that was over qualified to for the subject was the band Guns N' Roses covered with the timeless track Get in the Ring.
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Might be a new analysis, but it’s not a new finding.