A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than a bad guy... When Kellerman figured this out, the NRA got the Government to ban gun studies.
That's a lie
In another thread, someone laid out several of the flaws in Kellermann's
“study”. One that I knew of, long ago, was a bit of willfully-deceptive statistical sleight-of-hand on Kellermann's part. He counted, as
“a gun in the home”, every instance of a gun brought into someone's home by a criminal intent on using that gun to commit a crime against the occupants of that home. So, by his methods, anyone murdered in his own home, with a gun, was killed by a
“gun in the home”, unless the shot was fired from outside the home; even where there was no gun in the home until the criminal brought it in with him to commit that crime. And by framing his conclusion as
“A gun in the home is «X»
times more likely to kill a household member than [to kill] a bad guy.”, he intentionally left out the overwhelming vast majority of successful legitimate uses of a gun for defense, in which the bad guy is not killed. Credible estimates put the number of such successful uses of a firearm for legitimate self-defense at something on the order of millions a year, compared to only a few tens of thousands of people who die in any way having to do with a firearm.
It also turns out that Kellermann greatly-exaggerated what, even by his own dishonest methods, his
“study” showed. Called on that, he was compelled to revise that estimate down greatly, to a number in the low single-digit range. A quick Google search shows me that the revised figure, down from 43%, was 2.7%.