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An Interactive Web-Based Lethal Means Safety Decision Aid for Suicidal Adults (Lock to Live): Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
BackgroundCounseling to reduce access to lethal means such as firearms and medications is recommended for suicidal adults but does not routinely occur. We developed the Web-based Lock to Live (L2L) decision aid to help suicidal adults and their families ...
Betz, Marian E   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Love Our Kids, Lock Your Guns" [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2001
Safer storage practices may reduce injury rates by limiting youth access to firearms.To determine if a firearm safety counseling and gun lock distribution program improved storage practices.Community-based before-after trial.Urban county in central North Carolina.One hundred twelve adult gun owners recruited through a mass media advertising campaign.In
T, Coyne-Beasley   +2 more
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The Use of 2.4-mm Locking Plate System in Treating Comminuted Mandibular Fracture by Firearm [PDF]

open access: yesCraniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction, 2012
Maxillofacial trauma caused by firearms has considerably increased, in which the mandibular body is the site of highest incidence of firearm projectiles. In these cases, the use of titanium plates and screws allows the early restoration of form and function of the mandible with stable and predictable results.
Cassiano Costa Silva, Pereira   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Commentary: Evidence to Guide Gun Violence Prevention in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Gun violence is a major threat to the public's health and safety in the United States. The articles in this volume's symposium on gun violence reveal the scope of the problem and new trends in mortality rates from gunfire.
Daniel W. Webster
core   +1 more source

(Un)lock and (Un)loaded: Regulating 3D-Printed Firearms in the Open-source Era after the 2013 Hysteria

open access: yesMasaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 2023
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is a fast-evolving technology that is transforming the way humans create things. Anyone can buy a 3D printer for private usage, allowing them to produce totally personalized things in the comfort of their own homes. One 3D-printed commodity, unfortunately, is provoking a huge debate: firearms.
Tan, David   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Accountability and Intervening Agency: An Asymmetry between Upstream and Downstream Actors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Suppose someone (P1) does something that is wrongful only in virtue of the risk that it will enable another person (P2) to commit a wrongdoing. Suppose further that P1’s conduct does indeed turn out to enable P2’s wrongdoing.
Bazargan-Forward, Saba
core   +2 more sources

Reducing firearm access for youth at risk for suicide in a pediatric emergency department

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundFirearm-related suicide is the second leading cause of pediatric firearm death. Lethal means counseling (LMC) can improve firearm safe-storage practices for families with youth at risk of suicide.ObjectivesThis study aims to evaluate the ...
Sofia Chaudhary   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lethal Means Counseling, Distribution of Cable Locks, and Safe Firearm Storage Practices Among the Mississippi National Guard: A Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial, 2018–2020

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives. To examine whether lethal means counseling and provision of cable locks prompt safe firearm storage relative to control among firearm-owning members of the Mississippi National Guard. Methods. This randomized controlled trial utilized a 2 × 2 factorial design (lethal means counseling vs control, provision of cable locks vs no cable locks).
Anestis, Michael D.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Commonsense Solutions: State Gun Laws to Protect Kids from Unintended Shootings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report provides a series of proposals that state legislators should enact in their states to help protect children from improperly stored firearms.

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The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

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