回複：家裏想置槍的，要慎重行事。

好消息，帶槍的被槍殺的機會比不帶槍的要高4倍半
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Carrying a gun increases risk of getting shot and killed
15:26 06 October 2009 by Ewen Callaway
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Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.

It would be impractical – not to say unethical – to randomly assign volunteers to carry a gun or not and see what happens. So Charles Branas's team at the University of Pennsylvania analysed 677 shootings over two-and-a-half years to discover whether victims were carrying at the time, and compared them to other Philly residents of similar age, sex and ethnicity. The team also accounted for other potentially confounding differences, such as the socioeconomic status of their neighbourhood.

Despite the US having the highest rate of firearms-related homicide in the industrialised world, the relationship between gun culture and violence is poorly understood. A recent study found that treating violence like an infectious disease led to a dramatic fall in shootings and killings.

Overall, Branas's study found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their odds of getting shot were even higher.

While it may be that the type of people who carry firearms are simply more likely to get shot, it may be that guns give a sense of empowerment that causes carriers to overreact in tense situations, or encourages them to visit neighbourhoods they probably shouldn't, Branas speculates. Supporters of the Second Amendment shouldn't worry that the right to bear arms is under threat, however. "We don't have an answer as to whether guns are protective or perilous," Branas says. "This study is a beginning."

Daniel Webster, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore, Maryland, thinks it is near-sighted to consider only the safety of gun owners and not their communities. "It affects others a heck of a lot more," he says.

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丟死 人啦. --替12個月寶寶抓了一把
回複：怎麽讓孩子早一年上學?
我 看那個:中國人在美國的故事。
剛給孩子 買 了一 架 新 的珠江鋼琴，baby ground, $5500
能 說那個保姆沒有損害別人的利益嗎?
To ;ppd
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• not surprised. You become bolder when yo -老忽叔叔- ♂ (150 bytes) (21 reads) 12/17/12 16:31:17
• Agree. 回複：not surprised. You become bold -2544- (0 bytes) (1 reads) 12/17/12 17:03:35
• 但是帶槍的槍殺別人的機會比不帶槍的要高1萬倍都不止，你以為這些冷血動物會放棄？ -jit- (0 bytes) (2 reads) 12/17/12 16:32:44
• 這很容易理解。瘋子除外，正常人不到萬不得已時不會殺人，有槍的 -文學村民- ♂ (226 bytes) (49 reads) 12/17/12 16:36:56
• 玩槍的人可能會有臆想有啥機會或借口在真人身上試一下 :) -網戀無罪- ♂ (0 bytes) (2 reads) 12/17/12 16:44:45
• 不帶槍的 are much more likely to knee down! -fakegreen- ♂ (20 bytes) (12 reads) 12/17/12 17:11:29
• or hands up! -fakegreen- ♂ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 12/17/12 17:30:38
• 這個算什麽好消息？別人被殺你高興？ --百科-- (0 bytes) (1 reads) 12/17/12 17:26:53
• "身懷利器，殺心自起”。與人爭鬥，打嘴巴踢幾腳和打一槍的區別大了去了。 -prouddd- (0 bytes) (0 reads) 12/17/12 17:29:14
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