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...into about half of all U.S. homes. The results of such preparedness? A new study suggests that a gun in the house is a bigger threat to the inhabitants than to anybody else. In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Physicians Arthur L. Kellermann and Donald T. Reay analyze 398 shooting deaths that occurred from 1978 to 1983 in households with guns in the Seattle area. The score: only nine deaths involved an intruder or were considered self-defense. Among the other deaths in gun-keeping households were twelve accidents, 41 criminal homicides and 333 suicides. CHART: TEXT...
...pubs, decide if they like what they see and then choose which one suits them." With over 3,000 hits every day it's not just tourists who are logging on. "Locals can check whether a pub is busy and use [the webcams] as an atmosphere gauge," says Gavin Reay, ceo of Viewpub. Viewpub has also set up an in-pub intranet to create a community spirit and host regular events, like interactive quizzes in which rival pubs compete against each other on large screens showing live shots of the opposition. This might sound like a good idea - until...
There is far more research on the question of who is most likely to get killed when someone keeps a gun at home. In a 1986 study called "Protection or Peril?," Dr. Arthur Kellermann, a University of Tennessee professor of medicine, and Dr. Donald Reay, chief medical examiner of King County in Washington, concluded that for each defensive, justifiable homicide there were 43 murders, suicides or accidental deaths. Out of 398 gunshot fatalities in homes in King County between 1978 and 1983, only nine were motivated by self- defense...
Moreover, public health is damaged by the lack of trained medical detectives. M.E.s are usually the first to sound the alarm about faulty product design, new diseases or social problems like child abuse. Says Dr. Donald Reay, Seattle's chief medical examiner: "Look how much the public knows about cocaine and firearms. That's because people are dying from drugs and gunshots...
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