Boston University study finds link between gun ownership and homicide

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/12/boston-university-study-finds-link-between-gun-ownership-and-homicide/

Researchers in the United States claim to have established a convincing statistical link between gun ownership and homicide, according to a new study.

The study, which appears in the American Journal of Public Health, challenges the National Rifle Association’s claim that increased gun ownership does not lead to higher levels of gun violence.

Covering 30 years from 1981 and all 50 US states, it determined that for every one percentage point in the prevalence of gun ownership in a given state, the firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9 percent.

In the absence of state-level data on household gun ownership, the study used a proxy variable — the percentage of a state’s suicides committed with a firearm — that has been validated in previous research.

interested to see how the NRA reconciles those they convince to buy guns are dying at a higher rate than the criminals, could they be guilty of complicity in that which came to the death of those they frightened into buying more and more while he laughs when the camera is turned off.

“In the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown … many states are considering legislation to control firearm-related deaths,” said Siegel in a statement.

“This research is the strongest to date to document that states with higher levels of gun ownership have disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides,” he said.

“It suggests that measures which succeed in decreasing the overall prevalence of guns will lower firearm homicide rates.”

The study found that, over three decades, the mean estimated percentage of gun ownership ranged from a low of 25.8 percent in Hawaii to a high of 76.8 percent in Mississippi, with a national average of 57.7 percent.

time to wake from the haze of gun power smoke and realize more means just that, more. the more guns the more deaths, the more you buy the more percentage you will die.  now you can say "won't happen to me", but i'm sure the over whelming majority of those now deceased felt the same way.

it's time to reign them in recognize or be eulogized.