Gun ownership and homicide rates

There has been numerous debates in the bay about gun ownership and its effects on crime rates. This informative paper in Social Science and Medecine shows what one could have anticipated: “Our findings suggest that in the United States, household firearms may be an important source of guns used to kill children, women and men, both on the street and in their homes. In these analyses, states within the highest quartile of firearm prevalence had firearm homicide rates 114% higher than states within the lowest quartile of firearm prevalence. Overall homicide rates were 60% higher.”