Kellermanns "Gun Ownership as a risk factor" paper

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Dr Suter's straw man



In article <960518222601_304203646@emout19.mail.aol.com> EdgarSuter@aol.com writes:

>Suter:  ...a majority of the homicides were _not_ committed by guns, so could
>not have been committed by Kellermann's scary "guns in the home."  How then
>did the "gun in the home" become a risk factor for homicide.
>
>Lambert: Because a significant number of the homicides were committed with
>the gun in the home.
>
>Suter: "Just because" --- _Now_ I understand.  Guns in the home are a risk
>factor for non-gun homicide "just because."

GUNS in the home were NOT, I repeat NOT, found to be a risk factor for
non-gun homicide.

That's the third time I've pointed this out to you.

>Suter: I can imagine no explanation for such a phenomenon other than by
>invoking silly anthropomorphic magical thinking - the "magnetize murderers to
>the doorstep" silliness.

Straw man.

Tim



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