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Firearm Design and Firearm Violence
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996To the Editor. —A product-oriented approach to firearm violence is fraught with pitfalls, as even Dr Wintemute admits, 1 and may indeed result in unintended, counterproductive effects. The banning by policymakers of a product today because of its lethality or perceived prevalence in crime may well lead to the substitution of even more lethal weapons ...
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Firearm Design and Firearm Violence-Reply
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996In Reply. —I agree with Mr Feldman's point that a reactive, uninformed "gun control" policy may have unintended negative consequences. I disagree with his contention (not a surprising one, coming as it does from an industry representative) that we should therefore abandon the product-oriented approach.
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Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1998
Summary Fireann injuries and deaths are a critical public health issue. In 1994, firearm injuries resulted in 38,505 deaths, making them the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. There is a growing body of knowledge about the epidemiology of these injuries, and information about risk factors is beginning to emerge.
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Summary Fireann injuries and deaths are a critical public health issue. In 1994, firearm injuries resulted in 38,505 deaths, making them the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. There is a growing body of knowledge about the epidemiology of these injuries, and information about risk factors is beginning to emerge.
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1994
According to Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian politician and crusader who was committed to nonviolent methods, violence stems from the following seven root causes or “blunders:”
David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
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According to Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian politician and crusader who was committed to nonviolent methods, violence stems from the following seven root causes or “blunders:”
David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a shooting incident.Design/methodology/approach– Using a modified version of the Knox close pair method, a spatio-temporal clustering technique, over 11,000 shooting ...
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a shooting incident.Design/methodology/approach– Using a modified version of the Knox close pair method, a spatio-temporal clustering technique, over 11,000 shooting ...
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Crime and Justice, 2017
AbstractThe United States has an enormous public health and safety problem from guns. The number of American civilian gun deaths in the twenty-first century through 2015 is greater than the sum of all US combat deaths in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given our love affair with guns, the overriding policy goal has to be to reduce the toll of
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AbstractThe United States has an enormous public health and safety problem from guns. The number of American civilian gun deaths in the twenty-first century through 2015 is greater than the sum of all US combat deaths in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given our love affair with guns, the overriding policy goal has to be to reduce the toll of
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Pediatric Firearm Violence in America
Journal of Pediatric Health CareWe have a firearm public health crisis in the United States, with firearm injuries being the leading cause of death in children. The state of pediatric firearm violence will be summarized through a synopsis of an expert panel of pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses.
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Firearm Violence and Public Health
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994To the Editor. —The Commentary on firearms1presented no factual or scientific justification for the legislative policies advocated. None of the 10 sources cited in the article tested the effectiveness of any gun law. Most of the statistics cited were true a decade ago, such as the increase in suicide among the young and its second-place ranking as a ...
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Reducing firearm violence: a research agenda
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2007In the United States, firearms are involved in tens of thousands of deaths and injuries each year. The magnitude of this problem prompted the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to issue a report in 2004 detailing the strengths and limitations of existing research on the relationship between firearms and violence.
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