However, most of the increased risk was not from strangers or "bad guys" breaking in. The risk was mostly associated with domestic violence, suicides, and accidents, not self-defense situations.
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Debating someone online who claims you are twice as likely to die by gun if you own one. Is that statement correct?
ChatGPT said:
The claim that "you are twice as likely to die by gun if you own one" is partially based on real research, but it's also oversimplified and potentially misleading, depending on how it's used.
Here’s the real context:
Several studies, especially a famous 1993 paper by Dr. Arthur Kellermann in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that gun owners (or people living in homes with guns) had a higher risk of homicide in the home, including by a factor of 2 to 3 times in some cases.
However, most of the increased risk was not from strangers or "bad guys" breaking in. The risk was mostly associated with domestic violence, suicides, and accidents, not self-defense situations.
More recent studies continue to show a higher risk of suicide among gun owners, and suicides make up a majority of U.S. gun deaths.
Important nuance:
The "twice as likely" figure usually refers to risk in the home and certain populations. It does not mean if you buy a gun, your personal death risk automatically doubles.
It also doesn’t account for people who buy guns because they already feel threatened (which confounds the cause and effect).
In short:
Technically yes, there is research showing higher risk if you have a gun.
But, the claim needs important qualifiers (suicide, domestic violence, context of the study). It’s not as simple as "you buy a gun and now you’re twice as likely to be murdered."
Would you like me to help you write a short response you could post back at them? I could also show you some data or quick stats you can use.
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Also guns save more lives than they take
You’re twice as likely to be killed by a gun, if you’re a gun owner. This is a fact and if you want to increase your chances of dying by gun, just keep one under your pillow.

Guns used to be used just for hunting
There was never a time in history when guns were ONLY used for one purpose anywhere. You are full of crap. Sounds like stupid **** warren hacked your account. Either that or you overdosed on stupid pills.
that they needed them for self defense.
As I have already said history proves it over and over. Just look at what happened in Israel Oct7th.
Also guns save more lives than they take. This is also already proven beyond contestation. The CDC study showed defensive gun uses number in the millions. Gun deaths on the other hand average under 100,000.
Face it you are wrong. Not just wrong, stupid warren level dumbass wrong.
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Guns were always just for hunting, until the NRA ran a propaganda campaign and convinced dumb white people that they needed them for self defense.
Looks like you fell for the propaganda too.

Didn’t think
That much is obvious. Your post is so dumb that warren could have ghost wrote it for you. Guns do have more purposes than killing. There is also defending and sporting. Likely more but I only have to provide one example to prove you wrong since you used the word 'only' and I gave two. Freedom is not free. There are 5 key freedoms in the first amendment. And without the freedom to bear arms those 5 can be taken at any time as history has proven over and over.
Yes, I declare your post as warren level stupid.
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Your logic is undeniable.
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The answer is they don’t. In the modern world, people only want guns to distract themselves from their pathetic existence and to satisfy their blood craving by hoping for the day they can shoot a minority.

For peasant shooting activities.
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Doesn’t that go against evolution and survival of the fittest?

Get a baseball bat. One smash to the face and they aren't coming near you and they will spend the rest of their life regretting having lost their teeth to a smaller/weaker person.
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Yeah I was just talking about a scenario where a gun could be necessary. Whether or not that would justify giving the average person access to them is another matter.

Resorting to ad hominem attacks? You just lost the debate, sweetie.

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Cars serve a purpose, Guns only exist to murder other human beings. If you want to fire a gun so bad than go play some ‘Call of Duty’.
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"GUN CONTROL IS LIKE TRYING TO REDUCE DRUNK DRIVING BY MAKING IT TOUGHER FOR SOBER
PEOPLE TO OWN CARS." - MLK

Or you could argue that it gives another scrawny Asperger’s teen the chance to do another Sandy Hook.
Do you want that on your conscience? I don’t think so Tim!

I suppose you could argue that it gives smaller/weaker people the chance to defend themselves against those who are stronger than them.