What Are the Risks and Benefits of Keeping a Gun in the Home?
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There is little evidence to suggest that keeping a gun in the home would endanger most of the occupants. Compared to all gun-related homicides, the number committed in the home against a family member is probably very small. In the US in 1993, there were only 155,000 gun-related violent incidents in the home. That same year there were an estimated 2.5 million uses of a gun for defensive purposes, 37% in the victim's home. Consequently, defensive use of a gun in the home outnumbers criminal use six to one. Studies showing gun ownership increases the risk of injury to the owner are seriously flawed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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Under a bare bulb
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Redgrave often paid a high economic cost because of her adherence to her goal of correcting as many of the world's wrongs as possible. Support of Palestinians in the 1970s brought her the punishment of smaller roles just at the height of her acting career. But at age 60, she still agitates.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1997
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Resisting resistance
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A increasing number of bacteria are developing resistance to various antibiotics. For example, methicillin-resistant Straphylococcus aureus is resistant to all common antibiotics, with the exception of vancomycin, and there are signs that it may be developing vancomycin resistance.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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