New York Times (February 3)
2013/ 02/ 04 by jd in Global News
“The idea that guns are essential to home defense and women’s safety is a myth. It should not be allowed to block the new gun controls that the country so obviously needs.” Guns kept at home are more often fired “in accidents, criminal assaults, homicides or suicide attempts than in self-defense. For every instance in which a gun in the home was shot in self-defense, there were seven criminal assaults or homicides, four accidental shootings, and 11 attempted or successful suicides.”
Tags: Accidents, Criminal assaults, Guns, Home defense, Homicides, Suicide, Women’s safety
