Context The source and ownership of guns used by children to shoot themselves or others is largely unknown. Objective To determine the ownership and usual storage location of firearms used in unintentional and self-inflicted intentional firearm deaths and injuries....
Suicide is a major public health problem in the United States. In 1980 nearly 27,000 persons took their own lives, making suicide the 10th most common cause of death overall and the third most common cause among adolescents and young adults. Given that 57 percent of...
Background It has been suggested that limiting access to firearms could prevent many suicides, but this belief is controversial. To assess the strength of the association between the availability of firearms and suicide, we studied all suicides that took place in the...
Background It is unknown whether keeping a firearm in the home confers protection against crime or, instead, increases the risk of violent crime in the home. To study risk factors for homicide in the home, we identified homicides occurring in the homes of victims in...
To investigate the associations among handgun regulations, assault and other crimes, and homicide, we studied robberies, burglaries, assaults, and homicides in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1980 through 1986. Although similar to Seattle in...
