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In reply to the discussion: The CDC study on guns...shut down. [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)As if the gun kept in your closet attracts the gun in the home invader's hand before you're shot.
That's typically the problem with studies such as these. They rarely account for the source of the gun in a homicide. The classic example is Kellerman's work, where in 85-something percent* of the cases, the gun that shot the person was brought into the home from outside.
You'd think from reading that particular study that guns in your home attract other people's guns.
Rather, people who are at risk of being shot are more likely to have a gun for protection themselves. (Because they're in a high crime area, because they (or a member of the household) are drug dealers, because they're being stalked by an abusive (ex-)partner.)
Which goes first, the horse or the cart?
eta: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cgi/archive.prl?study=6898 -- Kellerman's data..