I do not,and think that this is a very conservative opinion.It is probably 10 times worse than stated.

Oh yea I totally believe it. Wouldnt even try to look for a site to contradict it.

I think most legal gun owners know how to handle them safely, and that the figure stated is blown way off the charts. I have no sources, except for the many owners of guns that I personally know. And their all alive and well.

You are just pandering for points now. This is the 4th question you've spun off the same website. Fine. Here is a reprint of the intro to a rebuttal to the Kellerman "43 times" study to which Foer is referring. This is reprinted from: http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/papers-shade/StatisticalMisgivingsandLies.PDF Introduction In 1986 1 and again in 1993 2, author Dr. Arthur L. Kellerman and Donald Reay published a controversial study and paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which attempted to demonstrate an increased risk to homicides in the home due to gun ownership. In his 1986 paper, Kellerman was widely credited and criticized for jumping to a conclusion that people are “43 times more likely” to be murdered in their own home if they own and keep a gun in their home. To arrive at the 43 to 1 figure in his 1986 paper, Kellerman included suicides as “unjustifiable homicides” which amounted to nearly all of the 43 unjustified deaths that Kellerman and Reay cited. In his 1993 NEJM publication, he removed suicides from his study. To count guns in the homes as the cause of a suicide, the researcher would have to ascertain whether the gun or a gun in the home actually contributed to or facilitated a successful suicide that otherwise would not have occurred. Kellerman and Reay provided no such documentation or research in their paper. Most research suggests that guns do not cause suicide. Florida State University Criminologist Gary Kleck found that no method of gun control had any impact on the number of suicides. Controlling guns did somewhat temper suicide through the use of a gun, but not the overall suicide rate. The 1993 Kellerman study was equally flawed although Kellerman backed away from the 43 times figure and concluded that a person who had a gun in their home was 2.7 times more likely to be the victim of a homicide than one who did not. The paper suffered many flaws as later pointed out by many authors including the likes of Henry E. Schaffer M.D., J. Neil Schuman, and Criminologists Gary Kleck, Don Kates and others. Most significant is that Kellerman’s study and paper never underwent a peer review, which is regarded as the final treatment to any work or so called scientific study. Kellerman refused to release the raw data of his study on publication and to this day has refused to release the raw numbers. Relying instead on overall group numbers.

This isn't the only stat in that op/ed piece that I would like to know where he got is info from.

I don't know what the figures are but that is the general concensus and is consistent with what I've always heard

If true (and that article has some dodgy statistics), it is a measure not so much of how many friends etc. are killed as of how few intruders are killed. When they detect an intruder, very few people actually manage to find and deploy their gun before the intruder has fled (most common case) or has the draw on them. A gun in the house is not much defence: you need to be sitting around like a security guard with the gun at the ready.

I think the statement is total BS. Since I have used a gun to ward off an intruder more than once and I have quite a large stash of weapons, I should (statistically) be dead several hundred times over by now, anecdotal source of course.

I can't, but it doesn't surprise me.