... Indeed, the criminals in states with high civilian gun ownership were the most worried about ... mitting
the crime and willing to travel to Florida still have gotten a gun illegally some ... bombings for
shootings, though there is the same potential downside to successfully banning guns. ...

... living in Western and Southern states are significantly more likely to own one or more guns than
are ... high-school dropouts and college graduates are relatively unlikely to own a firearm, and
that white males living in rural areas are the most likely to own a gun. ...

... 1991-2000 declines in national violence rates, it contributed to a positive guns-violence
association ... measures (the criterion measures) and the various indirect indi- cators of gun levels ...
distributions were more nearly normal and the effect of exception- ally high observations was ...

... households with guns do not always have accurate information about whether a gun is present ...
37 In addition, household firearm ownership rates indicate nothing about the number of guns
per household, storage practices, or the ease with which high-risk individuals ...

... If the number of households with guns, as opposed to the number of guns, is the ... the social costs
of the additional homicides that appear to be generated by widespread gun prevalence. ... large
proportion of homicide victims are engaged in criminal activity that entails a high risk of ...

... If suicide is correlated with ownership of handguns (Table 3), rather than guns in
general, the correlations remain in the same order of magnitude, ie, very high for
gun-related suicide Page 10. Canadian Journal of Criminology ...

... rate in a county is high, the respondent could know other people who own guns for protection. ...
Even in the context of a high crime rate, large-scale reductions in gun ownership for protection
could ... and the like, are of the very same variety of protective re- sponse as buying a gun. ...

... Homicide rates from Northern Ireland had to be omitted, because the extremely high rates (three
to four times that of the rest of ... and homicide may be explained by the relative typical frequency
of these events in a private home (ie, where guns are kept by most gun owners'3 ...

... High response rates among case proxies (92.6 percent) and matching controls (80.6 percent)
minimized nonresponse ... A gun kept in the home is far more likely to be involved in the ... series studies
have demonstrated a strong link between the availability of guns and community ...

... easy access to guns in the US may be part of the explanation for our unusually high homicide
rates ... The typical gun buy-back program yields fewer than 1,000 guns. ... More stringent gun-control
policies such as bans on handgun acquisition passed in Washington, DC, in 1976 and ...