Posted on 01/21/2014 10:46:44 AM PST by lowbridge
Now, a new meta-analysis of gun research—the first systematic review of its kind—from the University of California, San Francisco, published in Annals of Internal Medicine today, has seemingly put an end to the debate over safety, at least in terms of suicide and homicide. Pooling results from 15 investigations, researchers found that a person with access to a gun is unequivocally less safe in terms of intentional death. Those with the ability to get to a gun are three times as likely to commit suicide and twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide than people without access.
Previous studies that include population level estimates have pegged the risks as even higher.
Guns are the most popular and effective method of killing—both of oneself and of others. Around 31,000die by the gun annually and gun deaths make up over half of all completed suicides and over two-thirds of all homicides.
The study found that access to guns had a different effect on men and women. Men were nearly four times more likely to commit suicide than when firearms were not accessible, while women were almost three times more likely to be victims of homicide. And while men make up over three quarters of suicides and homicides overall, women with firearm access are more than twice as likely to be a victim of homicide than a man with gun access, mainly because of the increased threat of domestic violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
People are willing to accept risks which they assume and control. A person could go skydiving on Sunday and complain all day long that his employer is exposing him to cleaning solvents on Monday.
So, I am willing to accept the risk that I create for myself by choosing to have a gun. Managing and minimizing that risk is something I enjoy as a responsible adult. But I am not willing to accept the risk that comes from being unarmed and at the mercy of those who might wish to do me harm.
At least this article makes it somewhat clear that the deaths from suicide by one’s own gun dwarf the deaths from homicide by one’s own gun. That comes down to how one feels about the individual’s right to end it all.
(Most Libs would outlaw suicide because it is illegal to destroy government property...)
In related news, men who are married are far more likely to be stabbed by their spouse than those who remain single.
These bogus studies make me want to shoot myself! No... Wait.....
"without access" means ZERO ACCESS
"without: - out of the limits of; beyond" Webster`s Dict.
stupoid illogical statement:
"Those with the ability to get to a gun are three times as likely to commit suicide and twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide than people without access"
\access "www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/access
access ="a way of getting near, at, or to something or someone. : a way of being able to use or get something." : Webster
if the guy has no way to get a gun, it is physically impossible for him to shoot himself or anyone else.
Since this guy`s reasoning is illogical and mathematically impossible I will correct his stupoid statement:
"Those with the ability to get to a gun are infinitely as likely to commit suicide and infinitesimally as likely to be the victim of a homicide than people without access" because "without access" means a person having no gun in his hand cannot pull the trigger, you idiot.
ZERO CHANCE = if"NO ACCESS" = ZERO ACCESS =WITHOUT ACCESS
This guy is a liar and moron at the same time- incredible!
more bs commie progaganda. Liars do figure.
Suicide, on the other hand, is one of the world's highest.
Blacks Suffer Disproportionate Share of Firearm Homicide Deaths
Oh okay, I will add my own spin. At least gun owners who desire to off themselves take personal responsibility by offing themselves with their own weapons.
I mean, they didn’t go jump off a bridge they didn’t build or anything like that. LOL
Every single person who eats ice cream will die.
Every one!
Simple statistics test: how many firearms murder victims are armed with a firearm at the time they are murdered?
Also, how many suicide attempts are there among people without firearms access? With a firearm an attempt is very likely to be successful, while attempts with, say, pills are not as successful.
WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2007 (pp. 649-694)
ANY study of violence that excludes the Race and/or Ethnicity of the perpetrators and victims is utterly worthless.
When they vote away my guns, I still have a vote: 30 of them per magazine.
Self-defense in your home against criminals is called “justifiable homicide” and isn’t a crime.
I’m sure they’re including all ‘homicides’ in their data, given their agenda.
Well then, this study settles it, gun ownership is good for everyone. Gun owners obviously want to keep their guns. And lefties should wan gun owners to keep them especially because the risk for suicide is greater for gun owners. Cuomo basically said that gun owners have no place in NY, so I’m sure he would be happy with suicide for gun owners.
They deal in feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings, only. Your facts are not welcome here.
And a car? Hose from the tail pipe into the cab and lights out. The sub-text here is ‘’guns are bad’’.
Study shows that people without guns are more likely to be k1lled by their government.
And people with insulin in the home are more likely to be diabetic.
Pooled results of 15 investigations. Big whoop.
This includes Obama's sons who get their firearms on the black market.
If Obama's sons were excluded from the crime statistics the USA would be one of the safest and least violent countries in the world.
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