Kellermann and University of Washington pathologist Donald Reay examined gunshot deaths in KingCounty, Washington from 1978 to 1983, concluding that of 398 people killed in a home where a gun was kept, only two were shot when trying to get in.
Hunter Handsfield, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington and director of public health in Seattle and KingCounty, says that the aforementioned disorder is rare and not very dangerous.
Of Washington's 39 counties, Miss Cantwell carried only five, piling up her votes mostly in KingCounty, which contains Seattle and its suburbs and almost a third of the state's voters.