Are people who own guns more likely to be shot?

Would any statistics on "skill" in some gun-owners defending themselves and shooting an armed opponent be cancelled out by stats on:

• gun deaths by suicide,
• poor defence,
• being shot by police by holding a fake or toy gun
• accidental
• other ways of being shot?

"A 2013 study of U.S. states in the American Journal of Public Health found that for each percentage-point increase in gun ownership, the overall firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9 percent, controlling for other factors."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...debate/613258/

So again, that's only counting homicide. Not gun death by officers, suicide, domestic violence, accidental death.

This is not a "ban guns" thread.
It's about the logical fallacy in believing that having guns protects you.

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