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22. I went to the link, and found something quite interesting:

It leads to another link. A study. So let's look at it:

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Determine the relative frequency with which guns in the home are used to injure or kill in self-defense, compared with the number of times these weapons are involved in an unintentional injury, suicide attempt, or criminal assault or homicide.

-- Well, I am guessing that such is true since people who own guns tend to keep them in their home (where else would they??). So yes, if someone kills someone with a gun chances are they, at some point, kept them at home. Duh.

RESULTS: During the study interval (12 months in Memphis, 18 months in Seattle, and Galveston) 626 shootings occurred in or around a residence. This total included 54 unintentional shootings, 118 attempted or completed suicides, and 438 assaults/homicides. Thirteen shootings were legally justifiable or an act of self-defense, including three that involved law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.

Memphis: 652,000 people
Seattle: 621,000 people
Galveston: 48,000

1,321,000 people
avg 88.8 per 100 people total guns (and let's divide by 3 saying avg person owns 3) = 352,266 gun owners

Works out to 0.17% of gun owners (who probably all keep them at home). Which is about the national avg as well (now if we did it by total number of guns, since each of those evil guns is just waiting to shoot someone, that percent drops even further).