>Maybe something not entirely aspplicable,
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/papers/gun.control.htmThird, having a gun around the house (or on the person) - even for self-protection - apparently increases the chance that someone in the family will kill themselves with the gun, or will be the victim of a homicide or an accident. One study found that "for every time a gun in the home was involved in a self-protection homicide, they noted 1.3 unintentional deaths, 4.5 criminal homicides, and 37 firearm suicides" (Reiss, A. J., Jr. & Roth, J. A. 1993: 267). This implies that for every case where someone in a gun-owning household kills an intruder to thwart a life-threatening attack, nearly 43 people in similar households will die from a gunshot.If this is the basis for your conclusion, then it is seriously flawed. You had better find some harder statistics.
Dan LeClair
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