My experience is much different. I held 2 guys at gunpoint for 20min once. The math teacher in me questions the sampling choices of the article as well. If you have guns in your house you're more likely to die from one. If you're a safe gun owner likeliness goes down.
To me it's like comparing drinking and driving to people who drink. The statically inherent risk goes up. Also the study cited is regarding cohabitation with firearms owners. Correlation does not equal causation.
Well, between your *personal anecdote* and published research studies, I know which one I'm going to give any weight to.
If I took time to look up research would it even change your mind? Why not look at areas we might agree with such as red flag laws? Please realize I don't Google research to back my position then post a link. I have to read its methodology and look for bias or flaw. It's a quirk of mine.
I understand you want published research and there are websites dedicated to such things. If we only discuss using our biases nothing changes. Would you be willing to consider my position that guns in the hands of trained, responsible, individuals deter violence?
Not without research. But anecdotal experience...I have known many gun owners (men and women) that are well versed in gun safety, gun handling and gun laws. One is the safety officer for the a large county facility. EVERY SINGLE ONE, show great excitement for the legal opportunity to kill. CREEPY
That is extremely creepy. I don't believe people who fantasize about violence are stable enough to own weapons. When I worked in armed security I avoided people like that.i I believe that government failure to collect data causes blind spots.