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And contrary to the claims of its authors (one of whom is backed by the NRA), it does not prove that more guns equals less crime.
Data
The results of a major survey of firearms owners corroborate a hotly contested statistic.
A forthcoming Harvard survey suggest that more Americans own a sizable stockpile of firearms than there are residents of Denmark.
The research corroborates earlier reports — and offers new perspective on other, less-discussed categories of multiple-victim gun homicides.