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Injury Prevention, 2018
Introduction Little is known about female gun owners in the USA. We describe the number and type of firearms owned, and reasons for owning, by sex. Methods An online survey conducted in 2015 of 3949 US adults; cross-tabulations using survey weights ...
Julia A, Wolfson +2 more
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Introduction Little is known about female gun owners in the USA. We describe the number and type of firearms owned, and reasons for owning, by sex. Methods An online survey conducted in 2015 of 3949 US adults; cross-tabulations using survey weights ...
Julia A, Wolfson +2 more
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Gun Ownership and Counseling of Alabama Pediatricians
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1995To examine the personal behavior of primary care pediatricians in Alabama with respect to a gun control policy. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports removal of handguns from homes, safe gun storage in homes with guns, and counseling patients about gun safety practices.Survey.Primary care pediatricians.Population-based sample.None.The proportion ...
C A, Fargason, C, Johnston
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Understanding Female Gun Ownership
Feminist Criminology, 2016This research examines female gun ownership trends from 1973 to 2010. Nationally representative General Social Survey data are used to compare rates for male and female gun ownership. In light of the specific marketing trends by gun manufacturers beginning in the mid-1990s as well as previous findings within the literature, we test (a) whether an ...
Maria D. H. Koeppel, Matt R. Nobles
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Gun ownership and suicide in the United States
Psychological Medicine, 1989SynopsisThe circulation of firearm magazines was used as an index of gun ownership in the states of the USA. States with a higher per capita circulation of firearm magazines had higher suicide rates by gun and higher overall suicide rates. Homicide rates were unrelated to this measure of gun availability.
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2016
Americans are viewed as having a national gun fetish. Whether it is Western movies, the gangsters in the 1920s, or the permissive gun laws relative to other countries, we are viewed as having a love affair with guns. How prominent is the so-called “gun culture”? Does this image of a gun-crazy society have any basis in fact?
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Americans are viewed as having a national gun fetish. Whether it is Western movies, the gangsters in the 1920s, or the permissive gun laws relative to other countries, we are viewed as having a love affair with guns. How prominent is the so-called “gun culture”? Does this image of a gun-crazy society have any basis in fact?
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Gun Suicide by Young People in California: Descriptive Epidemiology and Gun Ownership
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2008We studied the 336 firearm suicides occurring in California in 1997-1999 to persons under age 21. The gun used was most often owned by the victim or a family member living in the victim's household. Prevention efforts should focus on gun ownership and accessibility.
Mona A, Wright +2 more
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Journal of Surgical Research
INTRODUCTION Firearm-related suicides among children present a significant public health concern and a tragic loss of young lives. This study explores the relationship between firearm-related suicides, gun ownership, and state-specific gun laws ...
K. Haines +9 more
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INTRODUCTION Firearm-related suicides among children present a significant public health concern and a tragic loss of young lives. This study explores the relationship between firearm-related suicides, gun ownership, and state-specific gun laws ...
K. Haines +9 more
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Questions on Immigration and Gun Ownership
2019Abstract This chapter presents self-test questions on forensic psychiatry and law of immigration, and gun ownership.
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Gun-Ownership, Gun-Homicides and Social Capital
Abstract: We re-examine the evidence on the relationship between gun-ownership and gun-homicides in the U.S. For the first time in the literature, we: (1) account for different types of social capital (i.e., relationships and trust among individuals in a society) and (2) use a new instrument – hunting licenses – to identify the direction of the ...openaire +1 more source
Gun control, gun ownership, and suicide prevention.
Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 1988The relationship of the extent of gun ownership and the strictness of gun control laws to suicide and homicide rates in the nine major geographic regions of the United States was explored. Gun ownership, rather than the strictness of gun control laws, was found to be the strongest correlate of the rates of suicide and homicide by guns.
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