Study Finds People with Guns More At-Risk for Suicide and Homicide

daily beast ^ | january 20, 2014 | Brandy Zadrozny

[lowbridge]

Different article from different source here

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-guns-20140121,0,1179362.story

[skinkinthegrass]

and the poor? ..baseball bats..knives..drugs.

[knarf]

Y'mean suicidal and homocidal people with guns are more than likely to use a gun to commit suicide or homocide ?

How much did THIS study cost ?

[showme_the_Glory]

I quit reading at University of California, San Francisco

[Dubh_Ghlase]

How...convenient!

[thorvaldr]

Figures don’t lie but liars sure figure.

[ßuddaßudd]

Hey Man, Nice Shot . . ♫♪

[Moose Burger]

“...twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide...”

Yeah, but before they were like 100x more likely; that’s why they bought the gun

[DannyTN]

From the second article...

"Even those who muster these findings in support of gun limits acknowledge they fail to draw a causal link between gun ownership and victimization.

The 14 studies considered by the UC San Francisco team were observational studies, and they could not make a causal link either."

[V_TWIN]

“Pooling results from 15 investigations”

I am a data analyst, 15 investigations is a very small data pool. Sounds like they stopped when they got the results they wanted to see. Thats an old data trick...........................nice try though!

[vetvetdoug]

Explain the Japanese suicide and homicide rates in a complete gun control environment, lefties.

[unlearner]

Gun owners are also a thousand times more likely to commit tyrant-a-cide.

[tgusa]

“the first systematic review of its kind—from the University of California, San Francisco, “

stopped right there.

[stranger and pilgrim]

Meanwhile, researchers have found that people with ladders are at an increased risk of falls. In a separate study, it was determined that cuts are more common among households with knives . . .

Elaboration on the obvious . . .

[andyk]

You beat me to it

[Tenacious 1]

Now, a new meta-analysis of gun research—the first systematic review of its kind—from the University of California, San Francisco,...

Do I need to read any further than that?

[fish hawk]

If this study was done by the left, and who else would do it, you can do away with the suicide part altogether. Why are they even concerned with it when they want to kill old people and babies and backed Cavorkian’s quest. I would think that if anyone wanted to commit suicide the left would GIVE them a gun for free.

[willywill]

I guess a good trade off then is to give up our protection against a totalitarian government that would control our country for generations, to save the lives of people that number in the hundreds.

[the_Watchman]

Let's try a bigger sample. It is well established that people in New York, who have no access to guns, are much more likely to be victims of homicides committed with guns than say, people in Texas.

On the other hand, people in New York who have thwarted the law and have acquired access to guns probably are more likely to both perpetrate crime as well as be a victim.

[Lazamataz]

I am a data analyst, 15 investigations is a very small data pool. Sounds like they stopped when they got the results they wanted to see. Thats an old data trick...........................nice try though!

Pure crap.

And the article leads with "has seemingly put an end to the debate over safety".

No more debate, folks! We have a study based on 15 data points!

Global Warming techniques applied to guns.