Now the gun controllers pour out of the woodwork to claim that you’re more likely to kill yourself or a family member with a gun than a criminal.
Some of the people deploying this statistic really ought to know better.
Some of them do know better, and deploy it anyway. Some related thoughts from Jim Lindgren. “That the New England Journal of Medicine would publish a time-series article that did not account for population changes over roughly a two-decade period is embarrassing, but then peer review seems to suffer when gun control articles are involved.” Plus, a Bellesiles story.