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In reply to the discussion: Millions of kids fear being killed at school. It's time for adults to say: enough. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)35. actually not true,
        but people who live in houses where guns are kept also die at higher rates from gun violence. 
 That study was actually debunked.  It was done by ER doc named Author Kellerman that took millions from the CDC that produced a work that he refused to share the raw data and methods for peer review for five years.  When he did, it contained too many statistical flaws.  That is where you get the 43 times more likely.  It went though several revisions.
Latest revision has renting and smoking pot are higher risk factors.
https://guncite.com/gun-control-kellermann-3times.html
It also has to be noted our "gun violence", is not evenly spread. For example, in 2014 54 percent of our 3007 counties had no homicides. Two percent of the counties had 52 percent all of the US's homicides. When you look at the 50 most violent cities in the world, two or three are in the US. Usually Baltimore, Detroit, East St Louis. While, Michigan and Missouri has had universal background checks since the 1920s, the other 48 are far stricter. What they have in common are poor infrastructure, abject poverty, drug gangs, and political corruption.
Relative to what? What is relatively rare that someone is killed in self defense, but it is important to remember there is a high probability of surviving a handgun wound and that most of the time the threat is neutralized with no shot fired. According to several criminology studies, as reviewed by the CDC, it isn't that unusual.
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                        Millions of kids fear being killed at school. It's time for adults to say: enough. [View all]
							sharedvalues
							Dec 2018
							OP
                        
        
        Same profit motive--corporations wanting to sell deadly stuff to make money.
        sharedvalues
        Dec 2018
        #9
      
        
        Research on the number of times firearms are used for legitimate  self defense is ...
        spin
        Dec 2018
        #32
      
        
        IOW, "I like this editorial, therefore it is accurate and you should simply accept my word for it"
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jan 2019
        #71
      
        
        You're far from the first to sanctimoniously proclaim that you're trying to 'save' children...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jan 2019
        #70
      
        
        The new Prohibitionists hate guns (on the L), and migrants (on the R)
        friendly_iconoclast
        Jan 2019
        #59
      
  