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      Should Mexico Adopt Permissive Gun Policies: Lessons From the United States

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          Abstract After a recent increase in violence, policy makers and advocates in Mexico have proposed new firearm legislation that would shift Mexican gun policies towards a more permissive approach. Following the argument of ‘self-defense’, these initiatives would facilitate citizens’ access to guns by allowing them to carry firearms in automobiles and businesses. These initiatives have been developed without a deep analysis of the effects of permissive gun laws. In this article, the authors present an assessment of what Mexican policymakers and advocates should be aware of regarding permissive gun laws using the example of the United States, the nation with the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and where these policies are already in effect.

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          Resumen Ante el reciente incremento de violencia en México, algunos tomadores de decisión y grupos ciudadanos han comenzado a debatir propuestas legislativas que modificarían la política de armas en México hacia un enfoque más permisivo. Bajo el argumento de ‘legítima defensa’, estas iniciativas, por ejemplo, facilitarían el acceso a armas de fuego a los ciudadanos al permitírseles portar armas en automóviles y negocios. Estas iniciativas se han presentado sin un análisis profundo sobre los efectos de regulaciones permisivas en otros países. En este ensayo, los autores presentan una evaluación sobre lo que los tomadores de decisiones en México deben de considerar sobre regulaciones permisivas en Estados Unidos, un país donde ya se implementan regulaciones similares y la nación con más armas de fuego per cápita en el mundo.

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            It is unknown whether keeping a firearm in the home confers protection against crime or, instead, increases the risk of violent crime in the home. To study risk factors for homicide in the home, we identified homicides occurring in the homes of victims in three metropolitan counties. After each homicide, we obtained data from the police or medical examiner and interviewed a proxy for the victim. The proxies' answers were compared with those of control subjects who were matched to the victims according to neighborhood, sex, race, and age range. Crude and adjusted odds ratios were calculated with matched-pairs methods. During the study period, 1860 homicides occurred in the three counties, 444 of them (23.9 percent) in the home of the victim. After excluding 24 cases for various reasons, we interviewed proxy respondents for 93 percent of the victims. Controls were identified for 99 percent of these, yielding 388 matched pairs. As compared with the controls, the victims more often lived alone or rented their residence. Also, case households more commonly contained an illicit-drug user, a person with prior arrests, or someone who had been hit or hurt in a fight in the home. After controlling for these characteristics, we found that keeping a gun in the home was strongly and independently associated with an increased risk of homicide (adjusted odds ratio, 2.7; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.6 to 4.4). Virtually all of this risk involved homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance. The use of illicit drugs and a history of physical fights in the home are important risk factors for homicide in the home. Rather than confer protection, guns kept in the home are associated with an increase in the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance.
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                Journal
                mlr
                Mexican law review
                Mex. law rev
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (México, Distrito Federal, Mexico )
                1870-0578
                2448-5306
                June 2019
                : 11
                : 2
                : 27-53
                Affiliations
                [2] orgnameUniversity College London United Kingdom d.perez.esparza.13@ 123456ucl.ac.uk
                [1] orgnameTecnologico de Monterrey eugeniowv@ 123456gmail.com
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                S1870-05782019000100027 S1870-0578(19)01100200027
                10.22201/iij.24485306e.2019.1.13127
                0a5e8bcb-1d2c-4f8e-a6d1-df2c2610bbe5

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 07 November 2017
                : 28 July 2017
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 117, Pages: 27
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                Second Amendment,Gun Violence,National Rifle Association,Self-Defense,Permissive Gun Laws,Violencia asociada a las armas de fuego,Segunda Enmienda,Asociación Nacional del Rifle,Defensa Propia,Regulaciones permisivas

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