From: [r--y--e] at [ug.eds.com] (Royce Myers)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Facts about Guns, was Re: Part 1 of 3: The Case Against Gun Control
Date: 12 Nov 1993 17:09:55 GMT

As one who has read the NEJM study, and debated it with people who
understand case controlled studies, I can summarize the study in two brief
sentences:

"The study found that factors which lead people to live alone, rent and own
guns were statistically linked to homicide in high crime neighborhoods. 
The factors which caused homicide were not studied."

The study did not show that living alone, renting or gun ownership caused
homicide.  The study cannot be applied outside the control group, which is
much different than most of the United States, and is vastly different from
the small portion of the population who have access to internet.

If you are an alchoholic criminal with a history of violence, then renting,
living alone and gun ownership are linked -- in some unknown way -- with
homicide.

Implying that it applies to the general population of the U.S. is
dishonest.

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Royce Myers                            [R--y--e] at [ug.eds.com]