Guns & Households

Findings from a recent case-control study say that people who lived in households with guns were 2.7 times more likely to become murdered victims compared to people in households without guns. The problem with study was that the Survey data on a nationally representative sample of people in prison for criminal murdering were

compared with data on a nationally representative sample of the general population, in the first national case-control study of murder with guns. An analysis was performed on the data, with the dependent variable measuring whether the subject was a killer, and the key independent variable being whether the person owned a gun. The Control variables where age, sex, race, Hispanic ethnicity, income, education, marital status, region, veteran status, and whether the subject had children. The Results showed that gun ownership had a weak and unstable relationship with homicidal actions and behavior. Meaning that it is hard to tell weather more or less gun laws where required to stop gun violence.