Evaluating the “43 times” fallacy by David K. Felbeck

Director, Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners
August 10, 2000

Those who oppose the use of firearms for self-defense have for fourteen years quoted a study by Arthur Kellermann and Donald Reay published in the June 12, 1986 issue of New England Journal of Medicine (v. 314, n. 24, p. 1557-60) which concluded that a firearm in the home is “43 times more likely” to be used to kill a member of the household than to kill a criminal intruder.

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