brendak | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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    brendak on 02/11/2017 at 2:11 PM
    Re: “Ladies of Lead
    Sharon, as someone who teaches gun safety, are you suggesting that having a gun on a dinner table is no more dangerous than having a steak knife on the table? I hope you teach that guns should be locked up in the home. I work in a domestic violence shelter, so I know first-hand that guns harm more women than knives do. Statistics back this up: Domestic violence assaults involving a firearm are 12 times more likely to result in death than those involving other weapons or bodily force [Linda E. Saltzman, et al., Weapon Involvement and Injury Outcomes in Family and Intimate Assaults, 267 JAMA, 3043-3047 (1992)] If there is a firearm in the house it will likely be used by the abuser and as frequently pointed at children as at the abused partner. Please spread facts to your students, not your own made-up beliefs and/or assumptions.