Guns, Victims, and Criminals

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Guns, Victims, and Criminals

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SEATTLE (AP) — People hospitalized with a gunshot wound are 30 times more likely to come back to the hospital with another firearm injury than those hospitalized for another medical reason, according to a new study from the University of Washington.

Gunshot victims also are twice as likely to be arrested for future violent or firearm-related crime, according to a study by the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington.


http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/U ... 604716.php
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johno wrote:
SEATTLE (AP) — People hospitalized with a gunshot wound are 30 times more likely to come back to the hospital with another firearm injury than those hospitalized for another medical reason, according to a new study from the University of Washington.

Gunshot victims also are twice as likely to be arrested for future violent or firearm-related crime, according to a study by the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington.


http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/U ... 604716.php
^Somewhere there might be a clue for "reasonable gun safety solutions," instead of treating all citizens as infants or pre-criminals.
DID THEY DO THE STUDY IN CHICAGO?
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There is one irrefutable public health message from gun statistics..

poor people buy cheap guns and shoot each other. a lot.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:There is one irrefutable public health message from gun statistics.. poor people buy cheap guns and shoot each other. a lot.
A corollary could be that even cheap guns work rather well.
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True...for those who think the .380 is ineffective round.
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