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How have firearm laws changed in states with unexpected decreases or increases in firearm homicide, 1990–2019?

SSM: Population Health, 2023
Background: Firearm violence is one of the leading preventable causes of death and injury in the United States and is on the rise. While policies regulating access to firearms offer opportunities to prevent firearm-related deaths, an understanding of the
Michelle Degli Esposti, Jason Goldstick, Jason Gravel, Elinore J. Kaufman, M. Kit Delgado, Therese S. Richmond, Douglas J. Wiebe   +6 more
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Firearm Homicide and Firearm Suicide: Opposite but Equal [PDF]

Public Health Reports®, 2004
Objective. Homicide and suicide are intentional acts of violence that disproportionately involve firearms. Much more effort has been devoted to the ecological study of homicide; methods that have been developed to better understand and subsequently prevent homicide may be applicable to suicide.
Charles C, Branas, Therese S, Richmond, C William, Schwab   +2 more
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Firearm laws and the network of firearm movement among US states

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background The movement of firearm across state lines may decrease the effectiveness of state-level firearm laws. Yet, how state-level firearm policies affect cross-state movement have not yet been widely explored.
Sae Takada, Kristen R. Choi, Shaw Natsui, Altaf Saadi, Liza Buchbinder, Molly Easterlin, Frederick J. Zimmerman   +6 more
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Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Injury Epidemiology, 2021
Background Firearm violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. A surge in firearm purchasing following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic may have contributed to an increase in firearm violence.
Julia P. Schleimer, Christopher D. McCort, Aaron B. Shev, Veronica A. Pear, Elizabeth Tomsich, Alaina De Biasi, Shani Buggs, Hannah S. Laqueur, Garen J. Wintemute   +8 more
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Firearm Storage and Firearm Suicide

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceSuicide-prevention interventions often recommend removing firearms from the homes of individuals at elevated risk of suicide or, short of removal, locking and unloading all household firearms. The recommendation to remove firearms is based on strong and consistent evidence.
Miller, Matthew, Wertz, Joeseph, Swanson, Sonja A., Simonetti, Joseph A., Zhang, Yifan, Azrael, Deborah R.   +5 more
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Association of state-level factors with rate of firearm-related deaths

Surgery Open Science, 2023
Background: Over 48,000 people died by firearm in the United States in 2021. Firearm violence has many inciting factors, but the full breadth of associations has not been characterized.
Emily A. Grimsley, MD, Meagan D. Read, MD, Michelle Y. McGee, MD, Johnathan V. Torikashvili, BS, Noah T. Richmond, BS, Haroon M. Janjua, MS, Paul C. Kuo, MD, MS, MBA   +6 more
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Epidemiological review of paediatric firearm injuries and mortalities in Cape Town [PDF]

, 2013
Includes abstract.
Sammour, Shadi
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Dual public health crises: the overlap of drug overdose and firearm injury in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2018–2020

Injury Epidemiology, 2022
Background Drug overdose and firearm injury are two of the United States (US) most unrelenting public health crises, both of which have been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lauren A. Magee, Bradley Ray, Philip Huynh, Daniel O’Donnell, Megan L. Ranney   +4 more
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Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceCausal associations between household firearm ownership rates (HFRs) and firearm mortality rates are not well understood.ObjectiveTo assess the population-level temporal sequencing of firearm death rates and HFRs.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study used autoregressive cross-lagged models to analyze HFRs, firearm suicide rates ...
Morral, Andrew R., Agniel, Denis, Smart, Rosanna, Schell, Terry L.   +3 more
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Self-Protection versus Fear of Stricter Firearm Regulations: Examining the Drivers of Firearm Acquisitions in the Aftermath of a Mass Shooting

Patterns, 2020
Summary: Discovering causal mechanisms underlying firearm acquisition can provide critical insight into firearm-related violence in the United States. Here, we established an information-theoretic framework to address the long-disputed dichotomy between ...
Maurizio Porfiri, Roni Barak-Ventura, Manuel Ruiz Marín   +2 more
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