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A new Gallup poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans agree that a gun makes the home safer, rather than "more dangerous."

This figure is nearly double the percentage of those who said a gun makes the home safer in 2000.

The poll was released on Nov. 7. According to Gallup, a record-high "63 percent" of those polled said a gun makes their home safer. When the responses were divided along political party affiliation, Gallup found "81 percent" of Republicans and "64 percent" of Independents believed a gun made their homes safer, versus only "41 percent" of Democrats.

This squares with a Washington Post/ABC News poll Breitbart News reported in May in which Independents overwhelming supported the GOP approach to protecting gun rights over the Democrat approach to restricting them.

Thank goodness! We need some sanity back.

ann jusko wrote:Thank goodness! We need some sanity back.

Preach it, sister.

I expect it makes a big difference where your talking about. Having a gun at home may make you safer in Oak Cliff. It doesn't necessarily in Plano.

planosteve wrote:I expect it makes a big difference where your talking about. Having a gun at home may make you safer in Oak Cliff. It doesn't necessarily in Plano.

The crime rate in Plano may be lower than in Oak Cliff, but the basic premise does not change. A gun makes your home safer.

Background: Research suggests that access to firearms in the home increases the risk for violent death.

Purpose: To understand current estimates of the association between firearm availability and suicide or homicide.

Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Web of Science were searched without limitations and a gray-literature search was performed on 23 August 2013.

Study Selection: All study types that assessed firearm access and outcomes between participants with and without firearm access. There were no restrictions on age, sex, or country.

Data Extraction: Two authors independently extracted data into a standardized, prepiloted data extraction form.

Data Synthesis: Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs were calculated, although published adjusted estimates were preferentially used. Summary effects were estimated using random- and fixed-effects models. Potential methodological reasons for differences in effects through subgroup analyses were explored. Data were pooled from 16 observational studies that assessed the odds of suicide or homicide, yielding pooled ORs of 3.24 (95% CI, 2.41 to 4.40) and 2.00 (CI, 1.56 to 3.02), respectively. When only studies that used interviews to determine firearm accessibility were considered, the pooled OR for suicide was 3.14 (CI, 2.29 to 4.43).

Limitations: Firearm accessibility was determined by survey interviews in most studies; misclassification of accessibility may have occurred. Heterogeneous populations of varying risks were synthesized to estimate pooled odds of death.

Conclusion: Access to firearms is associated with risk for completed suicide and being the victim of homicide.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1814426

Bologna, at least in my home. Their have been guns in our home for long before I was born. Ever person in my family and extended family has guns in the home. Only one incident has occurred in 100+ years, That incident would have happened with or without a gun, that person had pledged to end their life and had attempted to do so on more than one occasion.

Guns in my home increase the risk of violent deaths, of Criminals.