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Joe Biden proposals for banning some firearms, high capacity magazines, immunity changes
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<blockquote data-quote="stevil" data-source="post: 75883427" data-attributes="member: 277368"><p>I've gone back over my post of references that you were responding to here.</p><p>Probably the most direct statement was </p><p>"- having a gun in the home increased the overall risk of someone in the household being murdered by 41 per cent; but for women in particular the risk was nearly tripled (an increase of 272 per cent)."</p><p></p><p>So here it was linking the presence of a gun at home to the overall murder rate.</p><p>This dispels the idea that a murderer will just use an alternative weapon and hence having a gun makes no difference.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The two things that I'm not sure about with these statistics that show a very large and significant increase in homicide rates for women when a gun is present at the home is:</p><p>1. Causality - Is it because the woman is in an abusive relationship that she gets the gun? So she is already at higher risk (whether she has the gun or not)</p><p>2. How many times is it that the attacker uses her gun against her. - The stats might be a bit blurred by the man having his own gun in her house.</p><p></p><p>In terms of item 1. I'm pretty sure there are studies that show out of women in abusive relationships - those that have a gun at home are more likely to be murdered. But I don't have time right now to look up references for this. </p><p></p><p>Item 2 would be interesting to delve further into. I can't recall ever seeing this detail.</p><p>You might be able to mitigate this by having fancy lockers which only allow her to have access to her gun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevil, post: 75883427, member: 277368"] I've gone back over my post of references that you were responding to here. Probably the most direct statement was "- having a gun in the home increased the overall risk of someone in the household being murdered by 41 per cent; but for women in particular the risk was nearly tripled (an increase of 272 per cent)." So here it was linking the presence of a gun at home to the overall murder rate. This dispels the idea that a murderer will just use an alternative weapon and hence having a gun makes no difference. The two things that I'm not sure about with these statistics that show a very large and significant increase in homicide rates for women when a gun is present at the home is: 1. Causality - Is it because the woman is in an abusive relationship that she gets the gun? So she is already at higher risk (whether she has the gun or not) 2. How many times is it that the attacker uses her gun against her. - The stats might be a bit blurred by the man having his own gun in her house. In terms of item 1. I'm pretty sure there are studies that show out of women in abusive relationships - those that have a gun at home are more likely to be murdered. But I don't have time right now to look up references for this. Item 2 would be interesting to delve further into. I can't recall ever seeing this detail. You might be able to mitigate this by having fancy lockers which only allow her to have access to her gun. [/QUOTE]
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