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Note on ‘suicide and increased availability of handguns in the United States’: The influence of firearm ownership on accidental deaths

by admin | Feb 3, 2020

Each year in the United States, about 1500-2000 people are accidentally killed by firearms In 1976, for example, there were 2059 accidental deaths due to firearms (out of 100,761 total accidental deaths), as compared to 14,728 suicides due to firearms and 12,766...

Suicide and increased availability of handguns in the United States

by admin | Feb 3, 2020

During the 25 years between 1959 and 1984, the suicide rate in the United States increased from 10.5/100,000 to 12.4/100,000. The increase was confined to those suicides using a firearm, which had reached 58.5% of the total by the end of the period. At the same time,...

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