No. of Recommendations: 5
In fact, studies show that guns make households more dangerous. This study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found "people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted." And in households with guns, women face a much higher rate of fatality than men.Humorous anecdote (to me, anyway)... My Dad was a VA internist. He made house calls to a very few close friends and relatives.
One such relative became housebound by age and decrepitude. His playboy days ended, the 'girlfriend' of many years began purchasing handguns, leaving them on tabletops here and there around the house, just in case the old fart decided he wanted to end it all. Inexpensive 38 and 380 imports, but enough for the old guy to do the deed if he was so inclined. My Dad would confiscate them when he saw them because, as Albaby informs us, the risk was absolutely unacceptable.
A burglar could have amassed a nice collection of pocket pistols from that one residence. We need federal regulations on all sales transfers, thefts...and serious penalties for violations of securing said firearms.
"The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which compiles crime stats submitted by 15,875 of 18,674 U.S. law enforcement agencies around the country, estimates that more than $135 million worth of firearms were reported stolen by gun owners in 2020, the most recent year data is available. If we say each gun was valued at about $450 each (the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates the average price per stolen gun is between $400 and $500), that comes out to about 300,394 guns reported stolen from private owners in 2020.
In a 2017 survey of gun owners, Azrael and her colleagues arrived at a higher figure for guns reported missing each year, around 380,000."https://www.thetrace.org/2021/10/firearm-average-l...
