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and people should have common sense.   Using a seat belt is the smart thing to do.

The chance that I would stop a violent attack with my gun versus the chance that I would kill myself, or accidentally hurt someone else.   It is just idiocy to think that a gun reduces violence.
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Rivara and his team discovered that having a gun in the home is associated with a threefold increase in the risk of a homicide — they released this information in a series of peer-reviewed articles that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The CDC both funded Rivara’s original research and stood by the findings.[/i]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-extends-ban-cdc-research-gun-violence

So congress has stopped CDC from doing research on gun violence.

Gun Lobby is so scared of the results that their pawns have outlawed common sense research.

A bunch of scared impotent cowards is the NRA.[/quote]
The actual report can be found here - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506#t=articleResults

The study was limited to 420 cases where the victims were killed in their own home, usually by a relative (think domestic violence here).  The study did not encompass all gun owners, like say your grandpa with a long gun he hasn't used for years.

Case households and subjects had much higher alcohol and/or illicit-drug use than control households and subjects.  Case households also had a much higher rate of household members previously fighting and/or hitting each other than control households.  45.4% of case households had one or more guns and 35.8% of control households had one or more guns.

Given the above home environments, yes there is a higher chance to be killed by a gun if a gun is in the home.  It's a volatile environment ripe for violence.  However, if you remove the other high risk conditions the risk of homicide while owning a gun is drastically reduced.  This is why your loving grandfather never shot his loving wife and children while owning a gun almost his entire adult life.

In short, the study is not showing what you think (or hope) it does.  That gun ownership in general increases the risk of homicide threefold.  It does only if other risk factors are present.
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