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Even if having a gun in your home in Switzerland raised your chances of gun related death, that still doesn’t mean it’s caused by having a gun. Again, correlati
by read_if_gay_ 7y ago
Even if having a gun in your home in Switzerland raised your chances of gun related death, that still doesn’t mean it’s caused by having a gun. Again, correlation is not causation.
Also, you cannot really measure how often a gun saves a life. On the other hand, you can measure the number of gun accidents and according to Wikipedia they’re less than 1% of gun related deaths which puts them at about 130 per year. IIRC staircases kill about 350 people per year (US numbers).
I would advocate some kind of mandatory safety training for gun owners, but it’s really not the big point here. Measures like banning guns altogehter, I think, miss the point as well. Some places seem to do well with high gun ownership rates, so there must be something else at play that causes the US’s high rates of gun violence. More effort should be put into examining and fixing that in place of steamroller tactics and fearmongering like in that Vox article.