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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24054955

Am J Med. 2013 Oct;126(10):873-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.012.

Gun ownership and firearm-related deaths.

Abstract
BACKGROUND:

A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was to assess whether the popular notion "guns make a nation safer" has any merits.

METHODS:

Data on gun ownership were obtained from the Small Arms Survey, and for firearm-related deaths from a European detailed mortality database (World Health Organization), the National Center for Health Statistics, and others. Crime rate was used as an indicator of safety of the nation and was obtained from the United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends. Age-standardized disability-adjusted life-year rates due to major depressive disorder per 100,000 inhabitants with data obtained from the World Health Organization database were used as a putative indicator for mental illness burden in a given country.

RESULTS:

Among the 27 developed countries, there was a significant positive correlation between guns per capita per country and the rate of firearm-related deaths (r = 0.80; P <.0001). In addition, there was a positive correlation (r = 0.52; P = .005) between mental illness burden in a country and firearm-related deaths. However, there was no significant correlation (P = .10) between guns per capita per country and crime rate (r = .33), or between mental illness and crime rate (r = 0.32; P = .11). In a linear regression model with firearm-related deaths as the dependent variable with gun ownership and mental illness as independent covariates, gun ownership was a significant predictor (P <.0001) of firearm-related deaths, whereas mental illness was of borderline significance (P = .05) only.

CONCLUSION:

The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance in a multivariable model. Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.

Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

just stats games, but interesting for sure

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You can keep ignoring the fact that people are the problem all you want. It doesn't resolve or fix anything in the end.

Want less violence and human on human crime? Either reduce the amount of people and/or improve conditions for which people live in.

Or keep your blinders on. Nothing to see here...

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has nothing to do with people being the problem. Don't make it so easy to get guns. Make it more difficult to get rounds.

i doubt in that circumstance if he only had a knife, there wouldn't have been so many injury's/casualty's.

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