" A 1993 study by Arthur Kellermann et al. published in The New England Journal of Medicine that debunked the myth that having a gun in your home made you safer. The study showed that having a gun in your home increased the risk of one family member shooting another by almost threefold, compared to homes without a gun. The risk of suicide was nearly five times greater. " From the article.

http://www.examiner.com/article/american-academy-of-pediatrics-says-guns-do-not-belong-homes-with-children
"In spite of the popularity of firearms in the United States scientific studies suggest that the health risk of a gun in the home is greater than the benefit. No credible studies indicate otherwise. The has been overwhelming evidence that a gun in the home is a risk factor for completed suicide and that gun accidents are most likely to occur in homes with guns. And there is compelling evidence that a gun in the home is a risk factor for intimidation and for killing women in their homes. Furthermore, it appears that a gun in the home may more likely be used to threaten intimates instead of to protect against intruders."

One would think if the NRA was correct they would welcome more and more research to validate their position ....?

No more research on anything that might link them to disease of any kind. After all their making money is far more important than protecting us! 4 Million people holding 300 Million plus people hostage so that the gun makes can maximize there profits. Now not every member of the NRA is nuts but there spokesman sure is as all those who are waiting for the chance to murder the rest of us in there paranoid fantasy of over throwing the US government!

I've heard people here denying this was true.

Has there ever been a day in recent history in which there were zero gun deaths in the United States? It looks like they made up a statistic by choosing not to count "those people".

... when you rely on what you want to be factual (vs verifiable reality), you get just that : PLAIN STUPID

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The Tiehart Amendment not only hampers epideimological research on gun violence such as CDC public safety studies, it also thwarts law enforcement data collection on gun deaths. It is a real stinker. The fact that it even exists is, to me, the most damning evidence that the US political class is eaten right thruogh with corruption. When you take in the fact that this amendent is an appropriations rider, the role of particular politicians as virus carriers of the social diesase that is corporatism is made pretty damn stark. I would just add my plea to my fellow DUers to change the limited place in public discourse on gun violence thatTiehart Amendement had. It really needs far more discussion and action.

here is the transcript of an interview on NPR that discusses it
http://m.npr.org/news/Politics/167694808

and here is what Mayors Against Guns have to say about its history and the current efforts at dismantling it.
http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/federal/tiahrt.shtml

and just for an Orwellian curlicue, here is a Media Matters report on a FOX broadcast which purported to show that Biden's efforts to curtail the Teihart Amendment are related to the "fast & furious" scandal. Isn't it always 1984 on Fox?
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/19/fox-pushes-tiahrts-conspiracy-to-eliminate-the/182538

I wish I could "recommend" a response post

thanks!

It is important

The findings could create experts who are in favor of gun control, and then gun sales will plummet.

That guns are fucking dangerous.

This is the Republican position on science: don't study it so they can say "We have no evidence!"

Yeah, we have no evidence because we didn't do the fucking studies.

For bringing this.