Objectives We investigated whether stricter state-level firearm legislation was associated with lower hospital discharge rates for nonfatal firearm injuries. Methods We estimated discharge rates for hospitalized and emergency department–treated nonfatal firearm...
Objectives To examine associations of current mental and substance use disorders with self-reported gun ownership and carrying among recently separated US Army soldiers. Veterans have high rates of both gun ownership and mental disorders, the conjunction of which...
Examined the relationship between suicide acts and age, sex, race, and method used. Ss (aged <14–65+ yrs) residing in 8 US states comprised those committing 43,069 suicide attempts prompting hospitalization, 40,900 suicide attempts receiving only emergency care,...
Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4)...
In “Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States,” Siegel et al. (p. 1923) estimate the impact of right-tocarry (RTC) laws on murders over the period from 1991 to 2015. They advance the current literature in a number of...
