Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Are You Safer Because You Have Guns in Your Home?

The NRA leadership wants you to believe that having guns in the home makes you safer. The facts tell a different story. Guns in the home are far more likely to injure or kill family or friends than intruders. The data are so non-controvertible that the American Academy of Pediatrics, expressing concern for the number of children killed or injured by guns, recommended that pediatricians urge parents to remove all guns from homes.


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