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albaby1: ...owners of firearms derive benefits from firearm ownership that are significant enough that they trump those risks, either in a consequentialist (they make us safer!)...

Perhaps it would be more accurate to write, "they give the us the illusion of being safer".

In fact, studies show that guns make households more dangerous. This study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found "people living in homes with guns face substantially higher risks of being fatally assaulted." And in households with guns, women face a much higher rate of fatality than men.

The researchers found that people who lived with handgun owners were 2.33 times as likely to become victims of homicide and 2.83 times as likely to die from homicides involving firearms. Among people killed at home, those living with handgun owners were 4.44 times more likely to be fatally shot than neighbors living in gun-free homes.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-3...

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/han...

https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-ho...

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