Re: Ove Interest?

On 3/4/2025 11:41 PM, John B. wrote:

 The subject of this post was originally "home shootings" and it
appears that you are now slip sliding away from this  subject as the
Swiss data shows that you don't know what you are talking about.

John, YOU were the one who "slip slided" away from data on American home shootings, by pivoting to Switzerland gun ownership and shooting deaths. You pretended not to notice that Switzerland has far, far lower gun ownership rates than the U.S., and also has far lower gun homicide rates than the U.S.
Let's "slip slide" back to the question at hand, OK? Does having a gun in an American home make the home safer or more dangerous? IOW, does a gun make it less likely someone will be shot (presumably by "bad guys") or _more_ likely someone will be shot - usually by another member of the household?
The answer is: It's not even close. The guns make things more dangerous. I've found NO data showing the gun makes a household safer. Instead:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/
"For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.
Conclusions: Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense."
Or https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-3762
"Overall rates of homicide were more than twice as high among cohabitants of handgun owners than among cohabitants of nonowners (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.33 [95% CI, 1.78 to 3.05]). These elevated rates were driven largely by higher rates of homicide by firearm (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.83 [CI, 2.05 to 3.91]). Among homicides occurring at home, cohabitants of owners had sevenfold higher rates of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner..."
I can give more links - not that it will help. But those are two of the studies that specifically set out to answer the question at hand. Other studies found the same overall facts, and found they were true even in "nice" neighborhoods, so don't pretend this is just a slum problem.
These researchers came up with the questions above, and set out to gather data and answer them. I've asked you several times how YOU would answer the question in a scientific way.
You've failed to answer that. So if you have data showing guns in the house make it safer, post links already.
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- Frank Krygowski