re to all over again in article apr iitmax iit edu draughn iitmax iit edu mark draughn writes followups to talk politics guns only in article qv v j transfer stratus com cdt sw stratus com c d tavares writes in article c n gi f f ulowell ulowell edu jrutledg cs ulowell edu john lawrence rutledge writes so a person who keeps a gun at home is times more likely to die at home from a gunshot than he or she is likely to kill an intruder sounds like apples n oranges to me in any case has anybody tried to make the obvious counter study what are the numbers for someone who does not keep a gun at home that is what is the ratio of dying at home from a gunshot to killing an intruder for people who do not keep guns in their homes so what are is the ratio of unarmed people shot to death in their homes v s unarmed people who kill intruders is it worse than to inquiring minds want to know i don t know this specific ratio but i do have an earlier post that says a gun is times more likely to defend someone including the times where the gun isn t fired just scares the perpetrator away than it is to kill someone including self defense the post is kind of long but i ll be glad to dig it up and email it to anyone who asks doug holland doug holland anyone who tries to take away my freedom holland cs colostate edu of speech will have to pry it from my pgp key available by e mail cold dead lips
