Reply #13: Statistical games we play [View All]

[pipoman]

"• Nearly one-third of all women murdered in the United States in recent years were murdered by
a current or former intimate partner. In 2000, 1,247 women, more than three a day, were killed
by their intimate partners"

And this has what to do with anything in this thread? Surely you aren't claiming that this statistic has anything at all to do with guns are you?

"• In 2002, 54 percent of female homicide victims were shot and killed with a gun"

Wow, imagine that, a lower percentage of women are killed with guns than in the US as a whole.

"The FBI's Crime in the United States estimated that 66% of the 16,137 murders in 2004 were committed with firearms"

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm

"• A study of women physically abused by current or former intimate partners found a five-fold
increased risk of the partner murdering the woman when the partner owned a gun"

Isn't this a variation of the red car position that if red cars (the number one color for cars involved in fatality accidents) were outlawed there would be a reduction in red car related fatalities....of coarse keeping in mind 50 to 80 million gun owners.

Also of the incidents of women murdered by their intimate partner how many have a man in the home? Bet that number is even higher than the incidents of gun ownership. We all know what that means...

I would also be interested in how many of these intimate partners are legally in possession of the firearm they commit the murder with. If they have ever been convicted of domestic violence (or any felony) they are not in legal possession of that firearm.