Risks and Benefits of a Gun in the Home
 

:Dhttp://ajl.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/02/01/1559827610396294.full.pdf+html

Kind of a meta-study.

Enjoy the thread/t!

Ahhh science, always trying to fit life in a little box.

Whether it be beneficial or otherwise I'll let others decide but I have seen some of the occasional effects of guns in houses and I am quite happy there are non in mine.

More a case of statistics, I would say. And well-done statistics are hard to argue with. Their purpose is one of two: either to assess a bigger whole that else would be beyond the researcher's ability to overwatch it in its full scope and dimension, or to find and then illustrate inherent links between items that otherwise would remain undiscovered.

There are risks and benefits to owning a firearm, I'm grateful I have the right to decide for myself.

Of course it is beneficial to have a true idea of what the risks & benefits are, rather then basing it on anecdotal evidence which most people seem to (which is also very vulnerable to heuristic errors and bias).

As for this study I don't have much of an opinion yet. Statistics are only as good as the data they are generated from, and the problem with meta-analyst is it is difficult to tell how good this data is, given the multiple sources.

However, logically I think they are probably right more or less, and I have never been overly convinced of the deterrent effect of posessing guns (particularly when the criminal element is also packing).

I grew up for years in the country on a farm and we had guns all over the house, shotguns behind doors, in cabinets, drawers, gun racks on vehicles.
Even around age 10 it was common to get out the rifles and go into the woods and target shoot without parents or adults around, but growing up there most kids learned gun use out of the cradle.

I own several, all are locked up but one. We've had some break ins in our neighborhood. Often thought if someone broke in what good is a gun for protection if it's locked up and not loaded.
My teen son has 3 guns, locked up in his cabinet and my wife conceal carries. Not like if you wake up and see a crook standing in your door he's gonna give you that minute to wake up, unlock and load up, so that one is in the drawer beside the bed in a drawer where I rigged a push buttom lock on the side. However, I would prefer to get to my auto 12 gauge

I don't care what any study says, if a armed criminal is breaking into my home packing heat, I want the option of being able to shoot back. Comes in my house, he probably would come under
triangulated fire

Is parson caring a gun is more likely to commit suicide with a gun or shoot his wife instead of stabbing her?
Really?

One thing is true people caring a gun should have certain amount of training because otherwise in many cases the risk may out wight the benefit.
If one want to have gun make it difficult by forcing him to go through some sort of training once in awhile.
Specially a person who don't have relevant military or civilian experience.
Because people kill not guns.

I have me in my home, that's scary enough. :O:

Can imagine it..:03:

Don't know if you understand German, but there is a famous sketch from German TV, it is quite a classic over here. Ugly wife and husband behind the paper sitting at the breakfast table, no word. Suddenly says she in a pathetic emotional voice:

"Als ich heute morgen aus dem Fenster sah, da graute der Morgen!"

Balks he behind the paper:

"Dem Morgen."

:har:

Google Translate gave me some of the gist of it but I suspect it's a lot funnier than that, lol. :D

Yes. Something was lost in the non-translation. All I'm getting from my long-lost high school Deutsch class is window and morning.

The joke just can't be translated. the change of just one letter in "der", from r to m ("dem"), completely changes the meaning of ther whole sentence, totally. By meaning, she was saying "When I looked out of the window, the morning was breaking". With the changed letter and article, the meaning of the sentence the husband implied, is this: "When I looked out of the window, the morning got horrified".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYH4JKEkMk