If There Were No Gun In Oscar Pistorius' Home, His Girlfriend Would Be Alive

"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html

Hey! What a great idea!

Every mother packs a semi-automatic assault rifle...

(... thus making it five times more likely her children will die from a bullet.)

Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership, by Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, No. 7, August 13, 1992, pp. 467-472. Key Statistic: The presence of one or more guns in the home increases the risk of suicide in the home nearly five times. 

http://www.vpc.org/studies/whersuic.htm

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"Guns Make Homes More Dangerous, Not Less"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/guns-make-homes-more-dangerous-not-less.html

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"Guns In Home Increase Risk Of Death, Injury And Mental Disease" 

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100204/Guns-in-homes-can-increase-risk-of-death-and-firearm-related-violence.aspx

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"Guns In Home Increase Risk Of Death And Firearm-Related Violence" 

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100204/Guns-in-homes-can-increase-risk-of-death-and-firearm-related-violence.aspx

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"Firearm Access Is A Risk Factor For Suicide"
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/risk/index.html

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"Guns In Home Increase Likelihood Of Violent Death" 

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full

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"80% Of All Firearm Deaths In 23 Industrial Countries Occurred in The United States"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/80percent-of-all-firearms-deaths-in-23.html

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Whether by accident, sudden eruption of anger or psychological disease, firearms in the homes exact a terrifyingly high toll with correspondingly trivial benefit.

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