For the all-powerful American arms lobby, this was too much insult. A study, funded in 1991 by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that owning a gun in the home, far from protecting household members, increased the risk of homicide by 200%. and a 400% risk of suicide by gunshot. “It was unacceptable for the National Rifle Association (NRA), whose raison d’être is to sell weapons,” said Mark Rosenberg, then head of the department that commissioned the study.
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