Gun Policy News
Gun Advocates Use Unreliable Data to Claim a Need for Weapons
30 July 2012
CNN, Opinion
WASHINGTON - Do guns make us safer?
It's an article of faith among many gun owners that yes they do.
Last week, I presented in this space some evidence of the dangers of gun ownership: the elevated risks of accident and suicide in households that own guns. I pointed to a paradox: More Americans support gun rights, even as fewer Americans own guns. I explained this paradox with data that suggested many Americans hold false ideas about the prevalence of crime - and... (GunPolicy.org)