Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [r r w] at [philabs.philips.com] (Roger White)
Subject: CNN - Medical Report
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 18:42:05 GMT

This is my transcript of the CNN report.  Note the amount of time the NRA
gets.

Take care,

Rog

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CNN, October 6, 1993: Bernard Shaw - Prime News  - "News From Medicine"

	In today's news from medicine report, "Guns In The Home."  Surveys
	show most people who keep guns in their homes do so for protection. A
	new study finds those homes actually pose a substantial threat to
	members if the household.  CNN's Rhonda Rowlands reports:

Rhonda Rowlands (Atlanta, GA.): Surveys show half the homes in the United
	States contain at least one gun. [Video shows a blonde, white, young
	man with a crew-cut, wearing a t-shirt printed MOLOKAI on front and in
	jeans, entering a private home and going upstairs.]

Mark Wilson - Gun Owner: [The young man is now in his room, gun rack with 4
	guns on wall behind him]  I'm into a lot of hunting and target
	shooting.  I enjoy both and I also keep it for, in case, ya know, self
	defense.  I feel that it's, ah, a fundamental right for a person to be
	able to defend themselves, their home and their family. [Walks to
	night stand]

R.R.:	He keeps a handgun in his bedside nightstand.

M.W.:	This is my pad.  This is where I live and this is where I keep my
	junk.  So that's why I keep it here. [Takes pistol in holster out of
	drawer.  Then close-up of him removing clip.  Looks like a Colt .45 in
	stainless with Tricon (?) sights.  Gun is cocked-and-locked and he
	doesn't have finger on trigger as he unloads it - good handling.]

R.R.:	Although other studies have suggested keeping guns in the home is
	dangerous, researchers say a study in this weeks New England Journal
	of Medicine is the most persuasive to date. [Video shows a guy
	sitting at a desk, computer and cabinets behind him, desk covered with
	papers and he's typing on a laptop - a MacIntosh.]

Dr. Arthur Kellerman - Emory Center for Injury Control:  What we found was
	that in contrast to many peoples expectation, those who keep guns in
	their home for protection, gun, in fact, increase the risk of homicide
	in the home almost 3 times over comparable homes without guns.

R.R.:	More that three-quarters of the victims were killed by a spouse,
	family member or someone else they knew.  And there's no evidence that
	guns provide protection. [Close-up of someone firing a stainless steel
	revolver with ~2" barrel (can't identify), view from over the right
	shoulder of a guy firing a scoped rifle at an outdoor range, a from
	the floor up view of a woman firing a pistol at an indoor range,
	another woman holding a semi-auto pointed at the floor at an indoor
	range with silhouette targets, another woman - same place - with a
	revolver - close-up of her hands as she fires.]  Kellerman says even
	in the 14% of the homicides that involve someone forcing their way
	into a home, there was no evidence the homeowners guns protected
	anyone.  [Nice close-up of a Colt MK IV]  The National Rifle
	Association claims surveys show that about a million homeowners use
	guns for protection each year.

Paul Blackman - N.R.A.:  [Seated in front of bookshelves.]  ". . . but if
	they're trying to look at how many times a criminal is killed, that's
	only about, perhaps two-tenths of one percent of the protective uses
	of guns annually.  So looking at homicides is just looking at the wrong
	data set.

Dr. K.:	Even for people who have guns readily available, fewer that 4% of
	burglaries of occupied residences in the United States are resisted
	by someone with a gun.

R.R.:	The study shows the risk of homicide is even greater if the gunowner
	rents or lives alone. [Obligatory scene of a hospital E.R. with a
	Black guy on a Gurney.]  Illegal drug use and domestic violence also
	increase risk,  Kellerman recommends guns and ammunition be locked
	away separately, or, better yet, removed from the home.

	Rhonda Rowland, CNN Medical News, Atlanta, Georgia
	[Back to he bedroom.  Close-up of .45, gun rack has 2 scoped rifles (1
	bolt, 1 semi), a lever action rifle and a semi-auto shotgun.  Also a
	right-angle flashlight and a Marines bumper sticker.  There's also a
	guitar case (so he must be a red-neck).  Final scene has him sitting
	on floor cleaning the pistol.]

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	"New From Medicine is brought to you by Bristol-Meyers/Squibb Company
	-  the makers of Excedrine, the headache medicine."

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