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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone bought a gun, without talking to me, into our family with young children, he would be sleeping on the street with his precious weapon. I am quite avidly anti gun and would not want this in my home.

Living with a hand gun owner makes you 7x more likely to be shot by your spouse. 84% of those victims are women. As for protection, no difference in homocides by strangers - living with a gun does not make you safer, and some studies showed gun owners actually more likely to be killed by strangers. Women are 50% more likely to die by suicide than gun-free neighbours and are 4x more likely to die by suicide from gun.

No thank you. [/quote]

Learn the difference between correlation and causation.

Bad/stupid people in general are more likely to own guns. This doesn’t mean that guns are making people bad, they already had issues to begin with. Give an intelligent and responsible person a gun and they won’t become any more dangerous than without one. [/quote]
So you’re saying OPs husband has issues and that’s why he decided to buy a gun? I don’t disagree, and this is extremely impulsive decision made with no thought to anyone else. Sounds bad/stupid I agree. [/quote]

That's not exactly what I meant.

I'm saying that gun ownership is correlated with certain character traits that increase the probability of violence in the home. A guy who has anger issues and beats his wife is probably more likely to own a gun than a guy who doesn't. This means that someone who is already predisposed to domestic violence, now has a gun, and will more likely use the gun on his family members than someone who isn't predisposed to violence is less likely to own a gun to begin with.

If you average this over the entire population you can easily draw the conclusion that "gun in house = higher chance of shooting family members" without taking into account the nuances of it.

If 50% of domestic abusers own guns, and 35% of non domestic abusers own guns, the statistics will show that having a gun makes you more likely to shoot your wife, while ignoring the huge population of gun owners with a next to 0% chance of doing so.

What I'm saying is these broad statistics aren't very useful in trying to determine the risk of an individual person owning a gun. This is why insurance companies in other situations, ex: car insurance, try to gather as much data as possible about a person to better profile them and determine how dangerous they are vs relying on broad averages over the whole population.[/quote]

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