Guns Dont Make You Safer?

[ManusJustus]

Kasz216 said:

ManusJustus said:

Kasz216 said:

I dunno. I'd have to guess that people who own guns generally live in more dangerous areas of Philadelphia.

You know.  Just a theory.

Guns in your home make you safer, especially if you have an early warning of an instrusion.  On the streets however, if someone pulls a gun on you, having a gun in around your waist or in your glove compartment wont do you much good.  Clearly the criminal has the upper hand in these situations.  When someone comes up to your car windown and demands the car, reaching for your gun while a gun is pointed at you is not a good decision.

And yet... studies other then this one (which do exist) don't bear that out.

There have been two conflicting studies on the matter... however the one that says guns don't prevent violence are ones that require you be shot or hit before they consider it "warding off an attack."

Its the first study of its kind (epidemiology), not the first study on guns and safety.  That is bad journalism on the authors part, however, as there isnt much use to mention this other than as an attention getter, and I can see how it could be very misleading.  Thats assuming that the author is correct in the first place.

I would like to see numbers from other studies if you have them.  Please do a better job than the Jesus/Obama thread :)