Homicide Rates Higher in States with More Guns at Home

[kentuck]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070112/sc_livescience/homiciderateshigherinstateswithmoregunsathome

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Guns are used to kill two out of every three homicide victims in the United States, and new research shows that easy-access guns in the home make a difference. Homicide rates are highest in states where more households have guns, the national survey concludes.

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To reach the findings that were released today, Miller and his colleagues examined survey data of household firearm ownership collected via a telephone survey of more than 200,000 respondents from all 50 states. The survey is part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. They combined homicide deaths over a three-year period, from 2001 to 2003, for each state.

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In the top firearm-household states, homicide rates were more than double the rates found for states in the lowest firearm group. Overall, the top-gun states showed homicide rates that were 60 percent higher than all other states.

Most women victims of homicide are killed by guns that were already in the home, while men tend to be killed outside of the home. From past studies, Miller said, women are more likely to be killed by people they know, such as ex-boyfriends or ex-spouses.

“Overall women are more likely to die in states where there are more guns ,” Miller told LiveScience.

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[krispos42]

1. This is a dupe

It was posted yesterday in either GD or GD: P and then moved to the Gungeon a few hours later.

[billbuckhead]

2. It's pitiful that we are behind India in murder rate

The gun pimps are always blaming poverty for our horrific gun crime rate. Guess not.

<http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita>

[krispos42]

3. Yup, that's me, the gun pimp

I guess that when I want policies that lower all crimes rate, not just turn gun crime into knife crime.

The link you give goes to the overall homicide rate, not gun homicide, incidently. We're 8th in gun homicides. Interestingly enough, India apparently did not respond to that part of the survey. I wonder why.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita

[billbuckhead]

4. Even Scotland had a lower murder rate, cause it's so easy to get guns in USA!

Knives are far less deadly than guns. It's obvious.

Furthermore the UK doesn't have 1 percent of it's population in jail. I bet 3 strikes laws would lessen violent crime in the UK tremendously.