If you live with a gun owner, you're 2X more likely to be murdered [View all]

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This is an excellent study out of California. It controls for neighborhoods, so it compares you with your neighbor, not with people in the neighborhood across town. The predominant gun victims in these households are women. It looks at homicides, not suicides.

And if the homicides occurred at home, you're 7X more likely to be fatally shot than if you don't have a gun-owning spouse.

Of 595 448 cohort members who commenced residing with handgun owners, two thirds were women. A total of 737 012 cohort members died; 2293 died by homicide. Overall rates of homicide were more than twice as high among cohabitants of handgun owners than among cohabitants of nonowners (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.33 [95% CI, 1.78 to 3.05]). These elevated rates were driven largely by higher rates of homicide by firearm (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.83 [CI, 2.05 to 3.91]). Among homicides occurring at home, cohabitants of owners had sevenfold higher rates of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner (adjusted hazard ratio, 7.16 [CI, 4.04 to 12.69]); 84% of these victims were female.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-3762#.Yp4EF0Jzv9g.twitter