Is this intuitive or counterintuitive? I ask this question directly to myself, in search for a human instinct about the intuition of whether it is mentally healthy to have a loaded gun at home.
I don't know if it is mentally healthy but I do know it is unsafe. I am all for responsible firearm ownership which amounts to load your gun, shoot it, don't keep it around loaded. Don't leave them laying around, keep them locked up. If the cops are going to show up at your place, for instance, they don't need to see guns all over the place.
My grandfather was in the Polish mafia (ran a bar that was open on Sundays and got thrown out of the second floor window of the Polaski club) and had a loaded 45 next to his bed because he was afraid of being attacked. When I was a kid I found it
So far as I can tell they used a statistical model to estimate the risk of their being a firearm, they didn't go to people's houses to look for firearms so I don't know if this paper is "news" at all.
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[ 6.9 ms ] story [ 19.2 ms ] threadMy grandfather was in the Polish mafia (ran a bar that was open on Sundays and got thrown out of the second floor window of the Polaski club) and had a loaded 45 next to his bed because he was afraid of being attacked. When I was a kid I found it
So far as I can tell they used a statistical model to estimate the risk of their being a firearm, they didn't go to people's houses to look for firearms so I don't know if this paper is "news" at all.