[dirtboy]

Further, people who lived in one of the six "high gun states" were nearly three times as likely to die from any homicide and more than four times as likely to die from gun-related homicide than those who lived in "low gun states," the report indicates. Their risk of dying in a non-gun-related homicide was also nearly double that of those who lived in states with the lowest rates of gun ownership.

So, in other words, there is definitely SOME OTHER FACTOR at play here. Plus, you gotta love the wording. If the baseline in the low-gun states is 1, the non-firearms murder rate could be 2.2 (nearly double) and the firearms murder rate could be 2.7 (nearly triple) - when I see general words in a study like this, it usually means some fudging is going on.

[PistolPaknMama]

So, in other words, there is definitely SOME OTHER FACTOR at play here.

Of course it is. This research proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the mere presence of guns can cause death by any means. There it is in black and white. It must be true. /sarcasm