A new study shows that people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted.
time.com
A new study published in
The Annals of Internal Medicine sought to determine if gun ownership makes people safer. After all, that's why we want guns. To protect our families. They chose California as the test site due to their extensive records on gun owners.
18 million people studied over 12 years is definitely a statistically significant sample size. There have been other studies like this, but this is the first that looked at the safety of the entire household. In other words, the people guns are meant to protect. Let's see how they fared.
Ok, ok. But there's a lot of family members killing each other in that mix.
I would never use my gun on a loved one! My guns are meant to protect me and my family from intruders. What do these smart ass science people have to say about that!
If there's a protective benefit to gun ownership, you'd think it would be apparent when looking at a huge population over a 12 year period.
Man that study really helps put the push to outlaw pointy knives in rhe UK into perspective.
According to the study in the article you posted.:
"People living with handgun owners died by homicide at twice the rate of their neighbors in gun-free homes. That difference was driven largely by homicides at home, which were three times more common among people living with handgun owners.
We detected much larger differences for particular types of homicide. Most notably, people living with handgun owners were seven times more likely to be shot by their spouse or intimate partner. In many of these cases, instead of being protective, the household gun probably operated as the instrument of death"
Reminds me of these stories.
A police force has defended a "ludicrous" decision to give domestic abuse victims blunt knives to replace sharp implements in their kitchens.
Nottinghamshire Police hopes the scheme will reduce the number of people being seriously injured by their partners.
The force stressed it was a "tiny trial" in one part of the county and part of wider protective measures.
The idea has attracted criticism and one psychologist said it could put victims in greater danger.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48609164
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a crackdown on knives Sunday in response to the rising levels of violence in London, which recently surpassed New York City's homicide rate for the first time.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan tweeted. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Sadiq Khan said. London recently surpassed New York City's homicide rate for the first time.
www.usatoday.com
Taking the guns didn't stop the violence so now the pointy kitchen knives are being targeted, this letter sums it up.
The latest call for knife controls comes from the Church of England.
"We the undersigned are professionals and community leaders from across the UK who call on Government to see the sale of pointed domestic kitchen knives as a thing of the past," reads open letter from the Diocese of Rochester, signed by church leaders, lawmakers, psychiatrists, academics, and the like. "Historically we needed a point on the end of our knife to pick up food because forks weren't invented. Now we only need the point to open packets when we can't be bothered to find the scissors."
Once they get the guns crime doesn't magically disappear so instead of recognizing it isn't the inanimate object, they start banning pointy knives. If they are now after the knives in the UK that pretty proves they wont stop in the US once they get the evil AR.
The media loves to tell us about how deadly firearms are in the USA, they also love to tell us about mass murderes and serial killers, at least when it fits a certain narrative. Ever heard of Billy Chemirmir? He was a Texas based serial killer who was convicted of killing 18 women in 2018 and he isuspected of at least 6 more murders. He murdered all his victims with a pillow, meaning he smothered 24 people for about 7 minutes each but since he didnt use a gun or a knife, his story wasnt worth air time.
Yep, a pillow, so I guess once the pointy knives fail to stop murders pillows are next. Until we recognise inanimate onjects dont murder people, criminals and crazy people do, they'll just keep outlawing inanimate objects instead of focusing on the mental health issues.
Chemirmir has been charged in the deaths of 17 more women in Dallas and Collin counties, but investigators believe he may have had many more victims.
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