MedPage Today (4/13, Hlavinka) reports that even though “personal protection is often cited as a motive for firearm ownership, self-defense homicides accounted for far fewer firearm-related deaths than accidental deaths and suicides in Washington state’s King County,” research indicated. The study revealed that “for each case of self-defense homicide to occur in the home from 2011 to 2018, there were 44.1 suicides…7.3 criminal homicides,” and “0.9 unintentional deaths.” What’s more, “across the seven-year period, the incidence rate of firearm deaths was 3.9 per 100,000 person-years,” investigators learned. The findings were published online April 13 in a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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