Most gun homicides arise from personal disputes, not criminal acts

Evidence

Most homicides occur in heated disputes among family members, acquaintances, and relatives rather than in criminal encounters. There are more deaths by gun suicide than by gun homicide (Brent, Perper, Moritz, Wartella, & Zelenak, 1991). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1036

Categorization

• CANDY: Easily tweetable counterintuitive stat that overturns the gun-debate framing around ‘criminals’.