The study focused on nearly 600,000 Californians who did not own handguns but began living in homes with handguns between October 2004 and December 2016.
FILE - A sales clerk holds a pistol during an auction in Rochester, Wash., on Oct. 20, 2017. A study published in Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, April 4, 2022, suggests people who live with handgun owners are murdered at more than twice the rate of people who live in homes without such firearms. – Most U.S. gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, surveys show.
The dataset also was limited to registered voters in California who were 21 and older. It's not clear that the findings are generalizable to the whole state, let alone to the rest of the country, the authors acknowledged.But some outside experts said the work was well done, important and the largest research of its kind.
The study focused on nearly 600,000 Californians who did not own handguns but began living in homes with handguns between October 2004 and December 2016 — either because they started living with someone who owned one or because someone in their household bought one.The researchers calculated that for every 100,000 people in that situation, 12 will be shot to death by someone else over five years.
Separately, the researchers found that those who lived with handgun owners had a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims — 84% — were women, they said.
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