Table 1.

Distribution of number of guns in working condition in the households of respondents and the associations of number of guns with carrying a gun, anger-violence, and the conjunction of carrying a gun and anger-violence in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) (n = 5,653)¹

					Trait anger indicators
	Total		Carries gun		Has tantrums or angry outbursts		Breaks/smashes things in anger		Loses temper and has physical fights		Any of three anger indicators		Carries gun and any of three anger indicators
Number of guns	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)	%	(se)
0	63.5	−1.5	0.7	−0.2	19.2	−1	12.6	−0.5	6.1	−0.6	25.4	−1.2	0.2	−0.1
1	10.7	−0.6	7.3	−1.1	19.1	−2	8.7	−1.3	3.7	−0.8	21.9	−2.1	1.8	−0.7
2	6.6	−0.4	8.8	−1.9	17.2	−2	11.1	−1.8	5.9	−1.6	23.4	−2.6	2.9	−1
3 to 5	9.3	−0.6	8.4	−1.3	20.5	−2.4	11.2	−1.4	5.7	−1.4	27	−2.3	2.5	−0.7
6 to 10	4.6	−0.4	14.2	−2.5	19.8	−3	8.5	−1.5	6.8	−1.6	25.2	−3.2	7.8	−1.7
11+	5.2	−0.3	22.2	−4.4	18.6	−3.2	10.1	−2	9.1	−1.9	24.6	−3.6	7.3	−2.9
Any guns	36.5	−1.5	10.8	−0.8	19.1	−0.9	10	−0.7	5.8	−0.5	24.3	−1	3.7	−0.6
Total	100		4.4	−0.4	19.1	−0.7	11.6	−0.4	6	−0.5	25	−0.8	1.5	−0.3
χ25 2			110.5*		1.9		17.1*		14.6*		3.8		32.6*
χ24 3			22.8*		1.8		13.4*		4.8		3.3		10.7*
χ21 4			94.2*		0		0.3		8.1*		0.4		23.8*

^*Significant at the .05 level, two-sided test.

¹Based on the weighted Part II NCS-R sample excluding the 39 respondents who are employed in a protective services occupation that requires carrying a gun

²Chi-square test for difference between respondents with different numbers of guns in the home, including those without guns (5 DF).

³Chi-square test for significant difference between number of guns among those with any guns in the home (4 DF).

⁴Chi-square test for significant difference between those with and without guns in the home (1 DF))