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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] No one's forcing you to read this, Jay. Omega: [QUOTE]True, the study doesn't say, but the study's findings make it logically impossible for a significant number of these guns to have been brought in from the outside. The study found that keeping a gun in the house raised the chances of gun homicide only, not any other kind of homicide. It also found that it raised the chances of being killed by a family member or intimate acquaintance, not a stranger or non-intimate acquaintance. We can therefore eliminate the possibility that owning a gun raises the risk of a stranger breaking in (and then only with a gun!). The only alternative is that a family member or intimate acquaintance brought a second gun into the house on the day of the murder (any longer-term storage would have classified it as a "gun in the house"). That all murderers using handguns would do this seems highly implausible. It is also unlikely that these live-in murderers would restrict themselves to guns; we should expect to see other murder methods employed as well. The only plausible conclusion is that the vast majority of the guns used for homicide were the ones kept in the house.[/QUOTE] Link [URL=http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-kellermann.htm]here[/URL]. And as I've told people many a time, while I think a world without guns would be great, since that's not going to happen, I'm very much a strong supporter of gun control (Omega and I had this conversation once in detail). I just found this information amazing and wanted to see what the 'pubies thought about it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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