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To trace hesitancy around discussing gun violence, we have to go back to a critical 1993 studyopens in a new tab or window by Arthur Kellermann, MD, MPH, funded by the CDC, which showed that the presence of a firearm in a home increases homicide risk, contrary to the deeply-held belief that firearms necessarily confer protection. This is not a political statement; it is a statistically significant epidemiological association between an exposure and adverse outcome. We should welcome findings like this in medicine because they help us assess risk objectively. |
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| Kellerman's study doesn't pass the smell test . |
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