bustaheims said:L K said:I'm having a hard time seeing good data on the stuff. I tried to do a bit of reading on the subject and all of the "guns save lives" stuff seems to be a lot of anecdotal polls about people using guns to stop "attacks"...but attack doesn't actually automatically = threat.
It wouldn't surprise me if for every situation where someone else having a gun helped prevent an attack there are 5 situations where someone else having a gun made the situation much more dangerous/deadly.
Guns in the home are correlated with an increased likelihood of being shot. If you want to increase your safety, you should get rid of your guns. Here is one paper I found:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full