ington, suggest that the owners themselves, and their relatives and friends, have reason to fear the weapons.
In predominantly urban (92 percent) and white (88.4 percent) King County (1980 pop. 1,270,000), which includes Seattle, the authors exam- ined the records of- the 743 gunshot deaths that occurred between 1978 and 1983. Most (53.6 percent) of the killings took place in the home where the gun was kept. Of these 398 fatalities, 333 were suicides (83.7 per- cent), 50 were homicides (12.6...