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In video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, Arthur Kellermann of the
RAND Corporation said that keeping a gun in your home was a bad way to
protect your family.

?It?s natural to want to do everything you can to keep you family
safe, especially if you live in a dangerous neighborhood,? he told the
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. ?In a thunderstorm, it is also
natural to take cover under the nearest tree, but that doesn?t make it
a good idea.?

Kellermann has published several studies on gun ownership, which found
keeping a firearm in the home increased the odds a family member would
become a homicide victim. Not surprisingly, gun rights advocates have
claimed that his research is flawed.

?The facts are this: While there are occasionally instances where
someone uses a gun for self-defense effectively, the number of times a
gun in the home is involved in the death of a child, the death of a
family member, [or] the death of a visiting relative who is depressed
vastly overwhelms the number of cases where a gun is used for
self-defense,? he explained.

?That work has been out and available for over 15 years, and multiple
studies have shown homes where guns are kept are actually more likely
to be the scene of a homicide or a suicide than homes in exactly the
same neighborhoods without guns.?

He advised those who wished to keep a gun in the home to store it in a
highly secure location that couldn?t be accessed by intruders or
distraught family members.

80,000,000 million gun owners with 300,000,000 million guns and you would think that there
would be millions and millions of people killing themselves or being killed each year.

Why aren't we looking at knife control?