A gun in the house = risk of suicide is up to 10 times higher


	A gun in the house = risk of suicide is up to 10 times higher

Lexica

7-9-2008 3:30 PM

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suicide, guns, violence, death

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7-9-2008 3:54 PM

Socratoad

The OOIP (Organization OF Inadequate Penises) aka NRA will not wish to read this.

7-9-2008 5:31 PM

masbury

Shows the fallacy of the "Guns don't kill people; people kill people" reasoning. Guns don't kill people, but they make the killing of people much easier.

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States with high rates of gun ownership -- Alabama, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico -- have suicide rates that are more than double the suicide rate in states with low rates of gun ownership, such as Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii and New York, said Matthew Miller, an epidemiologist at the <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Harvard+School+of+Public+Health?tid=informline">Harvard School of Public Health</A>. The difference is not because people in gun-owning states are more suicidal than people in states where fewer people own guns, but that suicide attempts in states with lots of guns produce many more completed suicides.
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"The evidence is overwhelming," said David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Harvard+University?tid=informline">Harvard</A>. "There are a dozen case-controlled studies, all of which show the gun in the home is a risk factor for suicide for the gun owner, for the spouse, for the gun owner's children."
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