A new study finds that people who live with handgun owners in the U.S. are shot to death at a higher rate than people who live in homes without such firearms.
NEW YORK - Most U.S. gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, surveys show. But a study published last Monday suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
The dataset also was limited to registered voters in California who were 21 and older. It’s not clear that the findings are generalizable to the whole state, let alone to the rest of the country, the authors acknowledged. California is unusual in that it offers gun ownership data and other information not obtainable in almost any other state. That allowed the researchers to follow millions of people over many years to try to better establish what happens when a person begins living in a home with handgun, they said.
Those numbers suggest the risk rises 50%, but Studdert said it’s actually higher: In a separate calculation designed to better account for where people live and other factors, the researchers estimated the risk was actually more than twice as high. Previous research estimated that nearly 3% of U.S. adults became new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021, which translates to about 7.5 million Americans. Of those, about 5.4 million previously lived in a home with no guns.
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