[wideawake]

"If you bring a gun into the home, it increases the risk of homicide by three," said Becca Knox of the Brady Campaign.

And what if a NRA safety-trained, licensed individual keeps a legally registered firearm in their home?

What are the statistics then?

Becca ? . . . Becca? . . . Hello? . . .

[calex59]

Oh, she is quoting the false premise that if you have a gun in the house it will be used against you. Yeah, right.

[Rakkasan1]

I've read this BS as being everythere from 3 times to 42 times more likely. it all depends on which fudgepacker is fudging the numbers.

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=119

[GovernmentShrinker]

It's not true for any group. And nobody should be suggesting that citizens be required to get formal training, a license, and register their firearms, in order to possess, carry, and use them legally.

The "statistics" she quotes are garbage. The first big hole being that they exclude the vast majority of successful self-defenses with a gun that don't involve firing the gun. And the part about killing someone in your household? It certainly increases the number and percentage of domestic homicides that are committed with guns. However, like suicide, domestic homicides have a virtually 100% substitution factor -- in other words, if you're serious about killing a member of your own household, you can and will use whatever weapon you can get your hands on, since your victim will be readily available, and frequently off guard, sleeping, etc.