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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:24 PM Jan 2014

Armed with Reason: The Gun Study Data Base

http://www.armedwithreason.com/gun-study-database/

ArmedWithReason Gun Study Database

This database includes more than 100 academic studies that support our position and have at least an abstract available to the public. It is a work in progress. If you have any suggestions for further additions to the database or questions, feel free to contact us at armedwithreason@gmail.com.




The site includes links to studies on homicides, suicides, assaults, accidents and other gun-related studies. Included is an interesting section titled "Defensive Gun Use and Concealed Carry (Debunking Kleck and Lott)".
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Armed with Reason: The Gun Study Data Base (Original Post) Scuba Jan 2014 OP
Excellent! I look forward to looking at the different studies. CTyankee Jan 2014 #1
Just one excerpt billh58 Jan 2014 #2
So true Packerowner740 Jan 2014 #3
Are you sure that billh58 Jan 2014 #4
Why Packerowner740 Jan 2014 #5
I've seen some of billh58 Jan 2014 #6
I have posted 8 posts in that other forum Packerowner740 Jan 2014 #7
Thanks for answering billh58 Jan 2014 #8
I have been thank you Packerowner740 Jan 2014 #9
Thank you for posting GP6971 Jan 2014 #10

billh58

(6,641 posts)
2. Just one excerpt
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:32 PM
Jan 2014

from the study: "Without Guns, Do People Kill People?"

"Sometimes, no doubt, a person who is intent upon killing someone seeks out a lethal weapon. Far more often, gun-inflicted deaths ensue from impromptu arguments and fights: in the US, two-thirds of the 7,900 deaths in 1981 involving arguments and brawls were caused by guns [unpublished data, Federal Bureau of Investigation]. These deaths would largely be replaced by non-fatal injuries if a gun were not handy. Thus, a far more appropriate generality would be that "People without guns injure people; guns kill them."

Another Second Amendment absolutist myth exposed -- people with guns DO kill people. Clever NRA/ALEC, Koch Brothers, right-wing word play can not change that fact.

billh58

(6,641 posts)
6. I've seen some of
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 09:26 PM
Jan 2014

your posts in the RKBA Group, and it appears that you don't agree with the tenets of this safe haven pro-gun control Group. Just wondering why you keep posting here.

Packerowner740

(676 posts)
7. I have posted 8 posts in that other forum
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 09:30 PM
Jan 2014

I think I have posted just as many here. I don't think I have ever posted anything pro gun. On the other hand I have stated on a number of occasions that there need to be stronger gun laws and/or stronger enforcement of the laws already on the books.

ETA I see a number of posters in this forum post over there as well, do you ask the same question of them?

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