Same sh!t, different decade.
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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If they want to take our handguns, let them try. 25 states, HALF THE NATION, does not require ANY KIND OF LICENSE to carry a handgun.
Support your right to arm bears./joke
People in risky neighborhoods get guns.
Riddle solved.
I’m proud to tell the man from the government that there are NO handguns in my home. In fact, no weapons of any kind, not even sharp knives. We just buy ground beef or turkey so we don’t need anything sharper than a butter knife. Like President Joe, I like my pudding. That American Rifleman magazine that comes to my mailbox is because the letter carrier is careless about sorting the mail.
I’d love to know what “research” they did to come to that insane conclusion.
This ahole just solved the coming hunger threat due to a shortage of fertilizer problem around the world.
His study is so full of bullshit that all you have to do is print millions of copies,shred them and dump them on the ground around the world. Fertilizer problem solved.
1. people who own stepladders fall FAR more often than those who don’t own stepladders ...
2. people who own extension ladders fall FAR more often than those who don’t own extension ladders ...
3. people who own chainsaws have chainsaw accidents far more often that those who don’t own chainsaws ...
4. people who own automobiles have far more auto accidents that those who don’t own automobiles ...
5. people who own table saws have far more table saw accidents that those who don’t own table saws...
6. people who own private airplanes have far more airplane accidents than those who don’t own private airplanes
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.
‘What’s great about numbers is that if you torture them long enough they’ll say whatever you want” - JFK
Same sh!t, different decade.
“Researchers” with an agenda.
They never show the demographics for this type of report.
I use modeling code in my work. My old boss was unhappy with some of the numbers, but they were right. It got to the point in the argument where I asked her “what numbers do you want to see? I can make it happen.”
That’s the correct attitude.
I told all my contract manager that they were not paying me to lie to them.
If you don’t like the truth, I’ll have another contract by lunchtime.
Why should handguns be registered? Sounds like an infringement of the right to bear arms.
People that drive automobiles are more likely to get in an accident than those who do not.
If I had shot him back when he deserved it, I’d be out of prison by now! ;)
I liked ‘67 442s in HS (’63-67), along w/ early ‘66-67 GTOs and ‘66-67 Nova SSs.
I have one of these now:
Higher death in intruders for sure.
Reminds me of lyrics from a meatloaf song "Stop right there".
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