In the United States, more than 1 million people died because of firearm injuries (72, 78) between 1933 and 1987. In 1986, firearms were second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatal injury and ranked seventh among all causes of death (28). During 1986 and 1987,...
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...
National Crime Survey (NCS) data yield an estimate that 171,000 Americans were nonfatally shot in criminal assaults, robberies, and rapes for the period 1973–1979. Comparing this estimate with the number of firearms homicides during this period suggests either that...
Background Firearm control laws vary across the United States and remain state specific. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between variation in states’ firearm control laws and the risk of firearm-related injuries in pediatric population....
Objective To describe the magnitude and characteristics of nonfatal firearm-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States and to compare nonfatal injury rates with firearm-related fatality rates. Design Data were obtained from medical...
