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New Study Shows That Guns In The Home Don't Make Women Safer

By Penny Okamoto, Executive Director of Ceasefire Oregon

Having guns in the house doesn’t make women safer. A recent study found that women with access to guns become homicide victims at significantly higher rates than men do. Domestic violence becomes far more lethal when guns are involved, and the violence is almost always one-way, inflicted by men upon women.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2014/02/having-gun-house-doesn…