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6  NEW YORK STATE RIFLE & PISTOL ASSN., INC. v. BRUEN 

BREYER, J., dissenting 

of-road-rage-shootings-are-on-the-rise/;  see  also  J.  Dono-
hue, A. Aneja, & K. Weber, Right-to-Carry Laws and Vio-
lent  Crime:  A  Comprehensive  Assessment  Using  Panel
Data  and  a  State-Level  Synthetic  Control  Analysis,  16  J.
Empirical  Legal  Studies  198,  204  (2019).    Some  of  those 
deaths  might  have  been  avoided  if  there  had  not  been  a 
loaded  gun  in  the  car.  See  ibid.;  Brief  for  American  Bar 
Association as Amicus Curiae 17–18; Brief for Educational 
Fund 20–23 (citing studies showing that the presence of a 
firearm is likely to increase aggression in both the person 
carrying the gun and others who see it).

The same could be said of protests: A study of 30,000 pro-
tests  between  January  2020  and  June  2021  found  that 
armed protests were nearly six times more likely to become 
violent or destructive than unarmed protests.  Everytown
for  Gun  Safety,  Armed  Assembly:  Guns,  Demonstrations, 
and Political Violence in America (Aug. 23, 2021), https://
www.everytownresearch.org/report/armed-assembly-guns-
demonstrations-and-political-violence-in-america/  (finding 
that 16% of armed protests turned violent, compared to less
than 3% of unarmed protests).  Or domestic disputes: An-
other study found that a woman is five times more likely to
be killed by an abusive partner if that partner has access to 
a gun.  Brief for Educational Fund 8 (citing A. Zeoli, R. Ma-
linski,  &  B.  Turchan,  Risks  and  Targeted  Interventions: 
Firearms  in  Intimate  Partner  Violence,  38  Epidemiologic
Revs. 125 (2016); J. Campbell et al., Risk Factors for Femi-
cide  in  Abusive  Relationships:  Results  From  a  Multisite 
Case  Control  Study,  93  Am.  J.  Pub.  Health  1089,  1092 
(2003)).  Or  suicides:  A  study  found  that  men  who  own
handguns are three times as likely to commit suicide than
men who do not and women who own handguns are seven 
times as likely to commit suicide than women who do not.
D. Studdert et al., Handgun Ownership and Suicide in Cal-
ifornia,  382  New  England  J.  Med.  2220,  2224  (June  4,
2020).