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<blockquote data-quote="CanadianDream" data-source="post: 2389974" data-attributes="member: 571814">Okay, there are a lot of &quot;interesting&quot; statistics floating around.&nbsp; The ones I trust are those that have been published in peer reviewed journals.&nbsp; This means it is a scientificaly controlled study, and annoymous, random scientists (ie pro or anti gun) are assigned to reviewing and approving the studies. Here are the findings of only studies.1.&nbsp; If you have a gun in the house, there is 2.7 times INCREASED chance for murder by a gun when controlled for race, crime rate, criminal history, etc.(Arthur Kellermann et. al., &quot;Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home,&quot; The New England Journal of Medicine, October 7, 1993, pp. 1084-1091)2.&nbsp; You are 43!!! times more likely to injury you or a member of your house when a gun is in the house then when was is not.(Arthur Kellermann and Donald Reay. &quot;Protection or Peril? An Analysis of Firearm Related Deaths in the Home.&quot; The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 314, no. 24, June 1986, pp. 1557-60)3.&nbsp; The use of a firearm to resist a violent assault actually increases the victim&#039;s risk of injury and death(FE Zimring, Firearms, violence, and public policy, Scientific American, vol. 265, 1991, p. 48).So...now tell me where your stats come from.&nbsp; Are they peer reviewed - or published by the NRA.&nbsp; Or you just quoting from a website called &quot;gunowners&quot; - can&#039;t be any bias there. lol.So YOU CAN&quot;T make the argument a gun at home, or on your person is increasing the safety - it simply isn&#039;t.&nbsp; 43 times man... 43 times more likely to get hurt by a gun yourself then hurt an intruder.Now...the question is can you re-think your position or are you going to believe biased, non-peer reviewd data.Thanks for playing.Now for more important things...like hanging out with the g/f.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CanadianDream, post: 2389974, member: 571814"] Okay, there are a lot of "interesting" statistics floating around. The ones I trust are those that have been published in peer reviewed journals. This means it is a scientificaly controlled study, and annoymous, random scientists (ie pro or anti gun) are assigned to reviewing and approving the studies. Here are the findings of only studies. 1. If you have a gun in the house, there is 2.7 times INCREASED chance for murder by a gun when controlled for race, crime rate, criminal history, etc. (Arthur Kellermann et. al., "Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home," The New England Journal of Medicine, October 7, 1993, pp. 1084-1091) 2. You are 43!!! times more likely to injury you or a member of your house when a gun is in the house then when was is not. (Arthur Kellermann and Donald Reay. "Protection or Peril? An Analysis of Firearm Related Deaths in the Home." The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 314, no. 24, June 1986, pp. 1557-60) 3. The use of a firearm to resist a violent assault actually increases the victim's risk of injury and death(FE Zimring, Firearms, violence, and public policy, Scientific American, vol. 265, 1991, p. 48). So...now tell me where your stats come from. Are they peer reviewed - or published by the NRA. Or you just quoting from a website called "gunowners" - can't be any bias there. lol. So YOU CAN"T make the argument a gun at home, or on your person is increasing the safety - it simply isn't. 43 times man... 43 times more likely to get hurt by a gun yourself then hurt an intruder. Now...the question is can you re-think your position or are you going to believe biased, non-peer reviewd data. Thanks for playing. Now for more important things...like hanging out with the g/f. [/QUOTE]

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