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Saturday, March 29, 2014

If There Were No Gun In Oscar Pistorius' Home, His Girlfriend Would Be Alive


"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"


Hey! What a great idea!
Every mother packs a semi-automatic assault rifle...
(... thus making it five times more likely her children will die from a bullet.)

Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership, by Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, No. 7, August 13, 1992, pp. 467-472. Key Statistic: The presence of one or more guns in the home increases the risk of suicide in the home nearly five times. 

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"Guns Make Homes More Dangerous, Not Less"



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"Guns In Home Increase Risk Of Death, Injury And Mental Disease" 

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"Guns In Home Increase Risk Of Death And Firearm-Related Violence" 

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"Firearm Access Is A Risk Factor For Suicide"
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/risk/index.html

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"Guns In Home Increase Likelihood Of Violent Death" 

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"80% Of All Firearm Deaths In 23 Industrial Countries Occurred in The United States"

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Whether by accident, sudden eruption of anger or psychological disease, firearms in the homes exact a terrifyingly high toll with correspondingly trivial benefit.

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