It’s been proven, for decades, that people who live in homes with firearms are at higher risk for suicide or homicide. But the details are far starker than we previously imagined. According to a new study, adults who live with gun owners are actually twice as likely to get killed.
The new study, which was published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed gun purchasing and death records for 17.6 million homes in California between 2004 and 2016. What researchers found was that not only were people who lived with gun owners twice as likely to die by homicide, two-thirds of the individuals facing those risks were women.
