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To: Bill who wrote (910061)	12/21/2015 5:24:10 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573852

There are 117 million households in the country......not 330e6. And guns last many decades...so the odds of them killing someone is much greater than you indicate... In fact isn't it true that households with guns are much more likely to have a family member killed than those without guns??? People who have ready access to a firearm are almost twice as likely to be killed and three times likelier to commit suicide than those without a gun available in the home or from a neighbor or friend, a new study has concluded. Though men and women with firearm access were about equally likely to take their own lives with a gun, the latest research turned up a gender gap when it came to homicide. Compared with all adults without access to a gun, men with firearm access were 29% more likely to die in a gun-related homicide. But the analysis found that a woman who had a gun in or available to her household was close to three times likelier to die by homicide. Previous studies have found that three-quarters of women who are killed with a gun die in their home, and that women typically know their assailant. That suggests that women who live in homes with a firearm are more likely to be gunned down in a domestic dispute or by an abusive partner, the research team wrote in their study, published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine. But the group did not venture an explanation for why men with gun access were not much more vulnerable than other adults. latimes.com