If you keep a gun in your home," a University of Pennsylvania press release said last week, "you dramatically increase the odds that you will die of a gunshot wound, according to research published in the June issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine." Frightening results for people who own guns, or who are thinking of buying them. Frightening but, it turns out, meaningless-another example of how unsound social science is being used in public-policy debates.
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