Between 1977 and 1983, eighty-eight California children 0 to 14 years of age were unintentionally shot and killed either by other children or by themselves. The majority of cases occurred while children were playing with guns they had found. Easy accessibility to...
We conducted a two-part study of unintentional firearm deaths in California. First, we analyzed death certificate data for the 688 unintentional firearm deaths of California residents occurring during 1977–1983. Mortality rates were 7.5 for males, 0.9 for females, 4.8...
Firearms are a leading cause of death in the United States, yet the effort to understand their aggregate impact on the public’s health has only just begun. There were 26,442 firearm deaths among California residents during the years 1977 through 1983. During...
We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides–65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females–and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We...
