"If you bring a gun into the home, it increases the risk of homicide by three," said Becca Knox of the Brady Campaign.
What?!?! I would like to know how they get those stats.
So pretty much every time someone is killed inside a residential structure where the resident had possession of firearm.
"What?!?! I would like to know how they get those stats."
Hwll, I'd like to know WTF that stat even means.
When people use a stat like that thay are "Cuomoing'(as in Gov. Mario)ie: trying to make something sound like something else.
Notice how they say homicide rather than murder? Homicide is the taking of a human life by a a human. It is homicide if a homeowner kills armed perp in the house, even if it is demonstrably justifiable. Usually the stats they use are accurate but the definitions they use are skewed, such as "children" killed by violence including young gang bangers in their early twenties.
Kellermann et al. started generating all these frightening statistics with bogus methodologies starting about two decades ago, IIRC.
Footnote from Brady article: Kellermann, AL et al., "Injuries and Deaths Due to Firearms in the Home." The Journal of Trauma, Infection, and Critical Care. Volume 45, No. 2, August 1988
The above journal and Kellerman are notoriously anti-gun, plus they don't allow internet browsing so it's hard to dispute their 'facts' without subscribing to the journal.
John Lott has taken them apart a few times.
From the Sporting Arms & Ammunitions Manufacturers Institute (S.A.A.M.I.)
One of the most widely quoted statements about guns in the home is that a firearm kept in the home is 23 times more likely to kill a family member than an intruder. This comes from a study first published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1986,i following a six-year review of gunshot deaths in Seattle, Washington, conducted, by DR. Arthur Kellerman, et al. The validity of this study in determining the value and risk of firearms for home protection has been questioned due to its limited focus. The Kellerman study viewed defensive gun uses only as instances in which the criminal intruder was shot and killed. Instances in which intruders or assailants were wounded or frightened away by the use of a firearm were not included. Kellerman admitted that, "Studies such as ours do not include cases in which intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display fire arm. A complete determination of firearm risks versus benefits would require these figures be known."ii Kellerman's approach was not unlike measuring the effectiveness of police officers solely on the basis of the number of criminals they kill.
What that means is you are more likely to defend your property and life if you have a gun and the chances are 3 times greater that you will do so successfully!
Easy, they make up the stats as they go.
They get their numbers straight out of their Acme Stats-For-All-Occasions machine. They enter data at the gigo port and it cranks out the apropriate stats.
I think they count all the intruders getting shot. I certainly don't have any problems with those statistics. Actually I'd hope it'd be higher.
They pulled it out of their ass.