{"id":1698,"date":"2005-09-03T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:39:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:39:13","slug":"worldnetdaily-how-often-do-americans-use-guns-for-defensive-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"WorldNetDaily: How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting item from <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46085\">Larry Elder<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence&#8217;s website displays this oft-quoted &#8220;fact&#8221;: &#8220;The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns.&#8221; Their website fails to mention that Dr. Arthur Kellermann, the &#8220;expert&#8221; who came up with that figure, later backpedaled after others discredited his studies for failing to follow standard scientific procedures. According to the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Kellermann now concedes, &#8220;A gun can be used to scare away an intruder without a shot being fired,&#8221; admitting that he failed to include such events in his original study. &#8220;Simply keeping a gun in the home,&#8221; Kellermann says, &#8220;may deter some criminals who fear confronting an armed homeowner.&#8221; He adds, &#8220;It is possible that reverse causation accounted for some of the association we observed between gun ownership and homicide &ndash; i.e., in a limited number of cases, people may have acquired a gun in response to a specific threat.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t aware that Kellermann had retracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting item from Larry Elder: The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence&#8217;s website displays this oft-quoted &#8220;fact&#8221;: &#8220;The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns.&#8221; Their website fails to mention that Dr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}