Objectives To report on the incidence of unintentional firearm discharge and injury across the UK Armed Forces and present several cases of this wounding phenomenon. Method Munitions Incidents and Defects (MID) Cell data on UK Military Negligent Discharges and...
Although the misuse of firearms is necessary to the occurrence of firearm violence, there are other contributing factors beyond simply firearms themselves that might also be modified to prevent firearm violence. Alcohol is one such key modifiable factor. To explore...
Objectives We assessed weapon use in intimate partner violence and perspectives on hypothetical firearm policies. Methods We conducted structured in-person interviews with 417 women in 67 battered women’s shelters. Results Words, hands/fists, and feet were the most...
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...
