Penn study asks, protection or peril? Gun possession of questionable value in an assault
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 12:07
in Mathematics & Economics
PHILADELPHIA -- In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.