Background In 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued statements calling for aggressive actions to reduce the dangers of firearms to children and adolescents, including removing handguns from homes with children and working toward a ban on the manufacture,...
There has been a transition in US firearm injuries from an epidemic phase (mid-1980s to early 1990s) to an endemic one (since the mid-1990s). Endemic US firearm injuries merit public health attention because they exact an ongoing toll, may give rise to new epidemic...
Objective To describe gun storage patterns in gun-owning families with children. Design Survey of parents attending participating of fices. Setting Twenty-nine urban, suburban, and rural pediatric practices in Chicago, Ill; New Jersey; Houston, Tex; Utah; Georgia;...
As the articles in this journal issue show, gun violence affects children and youth in many ways: psychologically, emotionally, financially, and legally. But first and foremost, gun violence affects children’s physical safety. Therefore, this issue opens with an...
Firearm violence is a serious threat to the health of our children: an American child dies of gunshot wounds every 1 1/2 hours, and every 2 days 30 children–the equivalent of a school classroom–lose their lives to guns. Injured children and adolescents are...
