08-5-2019, 05:42 PM
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Very Grave Indeed
  
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Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 40
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Can you even show me, say...five such cases in the last 10 years? And then argue whether those cases justify the offsetting hundreds and hundreds of not prevented mass shootings?
If the cost of 'good guys with guns' who might get to save the day 1 in every 2000 mass murders is the other 1999 mass murders, I don't think you're arguing a very sustainable point.
From the study that DBP linked above:
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We found that keeping a gun in the home was strongly and independently associated with an increased risk of homicide (adjusted odds ratio, 2.7; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.6 to 4.4). Virtually all of this risk involved homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance.
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Owning a gun puts you at a larger risk of being murdered, not a lower one.
Last edited by devonin; 08-5-2019 at 05:45 PM..
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