Those who claim guns make a home safer are delusional, I’m afraid.https://twitter.com/MarkHoofnagle/status/1369317925329469445 …
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Replying to @gorskon
Its more nuanced than that I'm afraid. If you are a redneck who takes no safety precautions then of course. If you are a responsible gun owner, it makes your home exponentially safer.
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Replying to @Electroflxmusic
The "nuance" doesn't help the argument. The data are very clear that having a gun in the house puts the gun owner and family at a much higher risk for firearm-related injury and death.
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Replying to @gorskon @Electroflxmusic
Well also this is false, classist, and absurd. Rednecks aren’t uniquely susceptible to suicide. There is no evidence belief in guns for home defense is socioeconomic. There is no reason to make a class argument about this and it’s just another way for people to dismiss data.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
Suicide is a separate issue altogether, I am talking about accidents, which are entirely preventable with common sense gun training and safe storage.
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Replying to @Electroflxmusic @MarkHoofnagle
Yes, and suicide risk goes up if there’s a gun in the house, as does homicide risk.
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But that trend does not hold across countries. Places with less guns have more suicides https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html …
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I find denial of means reduction almost as annoying as denial of evolution or global warming. Suicide is not inevitable. All the data points away from this.
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IKR? Particularly with simplistic analyses that don’t correct for confounders.
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Suicide is rarely attempted twice. People think those who don’t die will try again but it is a small minority ~10%. Firearms are more likely than any other common method to result in death by almost 2x. Measures to reduce access to means decrease rates because it is impulsive.
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