Nicholas KristofWhy is it sometimes deadly to go to a mistaken address in America? Because we now have 450 million guns, with 60 million sold just since 2020--and because we suffer from the mass delusion that a gun in the home is protective. In fact, this has been much studied, and a gun in the home significantly increases the likelihood that a resident is murdered. My column: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html
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If people knew that they are many, many times more likely to kill themselves with a gun than an intruder, maybe they would pause some before buying a gun and thinking it's a panacea to their insecurities...