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Guns in the home can't prevent all crimes
[[John Lott]] said, "... it's not in everybody's interest to have a lock on their gun. If you live in a safe area and maybe have young kids, that might be fine. But if you live in a city, even if you have kids, I don't think it's really the wisest thing to have the gun locked up, because you're not going to be able to quickly access it to defend your family. And when you compare probabilities, accidental gun deaths in the home are trivial compared to the rate at which other types of deaths occur from crimes where innocent victims are attacked and a gun would benefit them."<ref> [http://www.reason.com/news/show/27562.html Reason Magazine - Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott]</ref>
[[John Lott]] said, "... it's not in everybody's interest to have a lock on their gun. If you live in a safe area and maybe have young kids, that might be fine. But if you live in a city, even if you have kids, I don't think it's really the wisest thing to have the gun locked up, because you're not going to be able to quickly access it to defend your family. And when you compare probabilities, accidental gun deaths in the home are trivial compared to the rate at which other types of deaths occur from crimes where innocent victims are attacked and a gun would benefit them."<ref> [http://www.reason.com/news/show/27562.html Reason Magazine - Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott]</ref>
Guns in the home are not always effective against crime, though. No gun -- locked or unlocked -- could have saved Tyesha Edwards, an 11-year old girl who was killed by a drive-by shooting in south [[Minneapolis]] in November 2002. Edwards was doing homework in her dining room when a bullet shot through the wall of the house and killed her.<ref>http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200211/26_hughesa_arrests/</ref>
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