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In the absence of state-level data on household gun ownership, the study used a proxy variable — the percentage of a state’s suicides committed with a firearm — that has been validated in previous research
Huh ???
Did they just say they made this up and say their method has been used before and then not show where their method was used before?
The murderous thugs in Chicago are homicidal “gun owners”.
They just don’t own the guns LEGALLY!!!!
The link is right there.
All of the guns that I once owned (tragic boating accident) never shot, let alone, killed any human being.
I’ve known 8 people who have done themselves in. Not a single one was firearm related.
Using my statistics, the overwhelming evidence is that we should ban garage doors
Always follow the money trail.
“The study, which appears in the American Journal of Public Health,”
Sounds like some Obamacare-affiliated communist rag. I’ll stick with John Lott when it comes to guns. I doubt these nerds ever fired one.
A real variable would be comparing legal gun ownership as opposed to illegally owned guns. Me thinks that variable was intentionally left out to skew the data.
In the absence of state-level data on household gun ownership, the study used a proxy variable -- the percentage of a state's suicides committed with a firearm -- that has been validated in previous research.
Another meaningless statistic (that they probably inserted to make the data match their pre-conceived ideas) without examining whether the suicides would or would not have used some other means to off themselves if a gun was not available.
It would take a lot to convince me that most gun suicides would still be alive today if they had not had access to a gun. Besides, didn't I read somewhere that accidental gun deaths are included in these statistics?
The people’s rights under the constitution shall not be infringed.
Study that a$$hats.
I guess these guys studied under Mann.
Then they note: The study also acknowledged a long-term decline in firearm homicide for all states, from 5.2 per 100,000 in 1981 to 3.5 per 100,000 in 2010.
So if firearm ownership has increased but firearm homicide has decreased how can they reach their conclusion: ... it determined that for every one percentage point in the prevalence of gun ownership in a given state, the firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9 percent.
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Manure.
People at risk for suicide, homicide, or violent crime are more likely to buy a firearm, because they anticipate they will need it.
It's like getting a driver's license, because you are planning to buy a car.
It does not look like what the headline advertised at all.
the study used a proxy variable...oh ok, so if a foreign born muslim hid all his education records and got financial backing from a muslim group, obtained 6 or 7 bogus social security cards, changed his name a few times, got involved in corrupt politics in a corrupt town, did nothing to establish anything while serving in that capacity, he could become president.....how stupid, proxy variables are always discovered and exposed.
Oh, please. In statistical terms this is known as Cooking The Books.
Homicide, not murder?
Lemme guess, the perp gets killed by the gun owner.