A new study shows that people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted.
. Record-breaking spikes in gun sales over the last two years, alongside surveys indicating that self-protection continues to be the dominant reason for buying guns, underscore a widely-held belief that a gun in the home has security benefits.shows no such benefits. We found the opposite: people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted.
Previous studies have probed that question, with virtually all finding higher homicide rates in homes with guns. But our study had three novel features. Finally, in measuring homicide risks, when we compared people who were living with handgun owners to people who were not, the comparisons were always made between people residing in the same neighborhood. This approach helped ensure that local conditions, like crime rates and economic conditions, had minimal impact on our calculations.People living with handgun owners died by homicide at twice the rate of their neighbors in gun-free homes.
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