An article recently published in the Archives of Suicide Research (Leenaars & Lester, 1996, 2, 223-234) concerning the impact of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation on the national gender-specific rates of suicide and homicide concluded that “… the bill had...
In the 1980’s, about 75 percent of firearms deaths in Canada were suicides, and almost 33 percent of all suicides involved firearms. To a large extent, therefore, preventing death by firearms means preventing firearms suicides. Opportunity theory underlying...
To assess the impact of the 1978 Canadian gun control law on suicide rates in Ontario, the authors compared firearm and nonfirearm suicide rates for 1965-1977 with those for 1979-1989. There was a decrease in level and trend over time of firearm and total suicide...
