OK... But statistically that gun is more likely to shoot someone you or someone you know than an actual criminal (2.7 times more likely)...
Stop spreading misinformation. And stop believing anything a liberal says. A liberal is the modern day Nazi. They spread propaganda for their oppressive agenda. Here are the facts about the Kellerman "study":
"The Kellermann study - which did not look at any other defensive gun uses (for example, incidents where a gun was effective after merely being brandished) except those where someone was shot - also compared the data on homicide victims with a so-called control group of similar individuals living within a mile of the victim. Researchers offered these folks ten dollars and then asked them whether they had guns and whether they had suffered any homicides. Unsurprisingly, researchers found that there were fewer homicides and fewer guns in the control group than in the other group. There was, in other words, a correlation between gun ownership and homicide.
Kellermann and his coauthors took this to imply that gun ownership causes more homicide.
But, remember, the first group had specifically been chosen because a homicide had occurred. These were not randomly selected households. It is very likely that this group of homicide victims faced an increased risk of death compared to other similar peoplewhich may very well be why they chose to have a gun at home in the first place.
Using this same logic, one could easily interview people whove been shot while wearing a bulletproof vest and conclude that these vests are very dangerous. Or you could interview people who died after calling 911 and conclude that calling the police often leads to death. These comparisons are idiotic - you are selecting a group of people who are already at risk.
Kellerman and his coauthors are medical doctors. So, for the fun of it, let's use their incredibly irresponsible method to "prove" that hospitals are dangerous places. To start, we'll collect data just as these researches did. We'll get a list of all the people who died in a particular county over the prier of one year, and then we'll ask their relatives about whether those people had been admitted to a hospital during the previous year. Next, we'll find people of similar demographic (age, sex, race, neighborhood, etc.) characteristics who are still alive and we'll ask them whether they'd been to a hospital over the last year. What do you think we might find? In all likelihood, we would expose a very strong correlation between the amount of time one spends in a hospital and the probability of subsequently dying. but would that be evidence that hospitals kill people or would it be evidence that you are a really stupid researcher"?
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