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If Nancy Lanza had just owned a gun she might have been able to protect herself -- oops my bad, Adam Lanza killed Nancy with her own gun. Well at least being killed by your own gun is rare... oops, my bad again...
Study: Gun Owners More Likely to Be Killed by Guns - www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918511/posts
May 27, 2003 | ERIC NAGOURNEY
A University of California at Los Angeles study shows that gun owners are nearly twice as likely to be killed by guns than those who do not keep firearms at home, the New York Times reported May 27.
The study further found that people with guns at home are 16 times more likely to commit suicide using guns.
More than half of victims knew their assailants, and 15 percent of killings arose from family arguments.
The lethality of guns played a role in the carnage, experts said. "People who are shot are substantially more likely to die than people injured with non-gun weapons," said study author Dr. Douglas J. Wiebe, who is now with the University of Pennsylvania.
For the research, Wiebe analyzed the deaths of 1,720 homicide victims and 1,959 suicide victims and a sampling of American adults.
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If Nancy Lanza had just owned a gun she might have been able to protect herself -- oops my bad, Adam Lanza killed Nancy with her own gun. Well at least being killed by your own gun is rare... oops, my bad again...
Study: Gun Owners More Likely to Be Killed by Guns - www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918511/posts
May 27, 2003 | ERIC NAGOURNEY
A University of California at Los Angeles study shows that gun owners are nearly twice as likely to be killed by guns than those who do not keep firearms at home, the New York Times reported May 27.
The study further found that people with guns at home are 16 times more likely to commit suicide using guns.
More than half of victims knew their assailants, and 15 percent of killings arose from family arguments.
The lethality of guns played a role in the carnage, experts said. "People who are shot are substantially more likely to die than people injured with non-gun weapons," said study author Dr. Douglas J. Wiebe, who is now with the University of Pennsylvania.
For the research, Wiebe analyzed the deaths of 1,720 homicide victims and 1,959 suicide victims and a sampling of American adults.
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