Posted on 04/04/2022 4:49:10 PM PDT by Houserino
NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, surveys show. But a study published Monday 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.
“We found zero evidence of any kind of protective effects” from living in a home with a handgun, said David Studdert, a Stanford University researcher who was the lead author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
The study has several shortcomings. For example, the researchers said they could not determine which victims were killed by the handgun owners or with the in-home weapons. They couldn’t account for illegal guns and looked only at handguns, not rifles or other firearms.
The dataset also was limited to registered voters in California who were 21 and older. It’s not clear that the findings are generalizable to the whole state, let alone to the rest of the country, the authors acknowledged.
But some outside experts said the work was well done, important and the largest research of its kind.
“I would call this a landmark study,” said Cassandra Crifasi, a gun violence policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “This contributes to our understanding of the potential causal relationship between guns in the home and homicides,” she said.
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AMEN
Oh, I agree, but the study was of California gun owners. CA releases all gun owner data to whomever for research.
It’s true! If you break into a house where the owner has a handgun there will be more dead perps.
A Masker,
‘nuff said.
I don't think they're talking about intruders, but the person who lives in the same house with a gunowner, ie, victim is wife, children, partner, roommate, mother-in-law.
That is the inference of the article and apparently the researcher but apparently their data does not support that inference. This from the article in typical AP fashion is nearly in comprehensible. The study has several shortcomings. For example, the researchers said they could not determine which victims were killed by the handgun owners or with the in-home weapons. They couldn’t account for illegal guns and looked only at handguns, not rifles or other firearms.
My reading of it is that they don’t know who killed who or with what weapons. Only that someone in a home where someone owned a handgun got killed with a gun.
Also no mention that more people are killed with knives and blunt objects than handguns by a large margins.
By their logic we should all remove knives and blunt objects from our homes.
The CA govt collects and willingly disseminates lawful firearms owner data. Of course, only law abiding persons are represented in the data as households with unregistered handguns aren’t nor can be known.
Whatever the study says you can rest assured that it started with the conclusion and the lies and distortions that made up the “study” were shaped by the desired conclusion.
@$$-SOCIATED PRESS
Now we finally know why Hunter’s girlfriend, aka the widow of his brother, ditched his .38 in a trash can of a convenience store parking lot across from the a high school.
She just didn’t feel safe. Good thing they had the USSS to come in and clean up that little pile of Hunter dung before it went public.
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