For future reference.

[catsittingstill]

 Some scientific research on guns and safety.

(This is an opinion piece but it has links to research papers.)  http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1487470

Injuries and deaths due to firearms in the home:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9715182

Snopes--not exactly scientific but more so than not,
links to DoJ figures on homicides by weapon type.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/baseballbats.asp

Department of Justice:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/

Stand your ground laws increase homicides http://www.npr.org/2013/01/02/167984117/-stand-your-ground-linked-to-increase-in-homicide?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130102

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1487470
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States


Comments from actual gun owners and users (not scientific--but good)
http://www.xojane.com/issues/on-black-holes-patience-and-what-i-know-to-be-true

Comments

[randwolf]

One of the most distressing things about the research funding is that most of the published work comes from the firearms industry itself, or from the radical-right organizations like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

So we have a severe shortage of facts, and much of the published literature (seldom in reviewed publications) is from questionable sources.

BTW, that xojane article's comments filled up with poison. There is no substitute for active moderation.

[catsittingstill]

People seem to have a hard time being sane about this.