From: [b--c--r] at [csl.sri.com] (Peter K. Boucher)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: NEJM Study on Homicide: I Actually Read It.
Date: 5 Nov 93 18:18:07 GMT

The under-measured variable that puts the lie to Kellerman's claim is the 
percentage of people hit or hurt in a fight in the home.

Since only 5.7%, of the controls had ever even been hit or hurt in a fight 
in the home, but 100% of the cases had been hit and killed in a fight in 
the home (by definition), the claim that gun ownership increased the risk 
of homicide is no more valid than if you compared a group of cases killed 
in boating accidents with a group of controls of which only 5.7% had ever 
been in a boating accident and claimed that life jacket ownership increased 
the risk of boating accident fatality.  It's that simple.

Kellerman tried to claim that only 31.8% of the cases had been hit or hurt
in a fight in the home!  This is a bold-faced lie.  Thanks for exposing it,
Steve.

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Peter K. Boucher
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