State Gun Laws and Pediatric Firearm-Related Mortality
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Gun ownership and firearm-related deaths.
BACKGROUND A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was to assess whether the popular notion "guns make a nation safer" has any merits. METHODS Data on gun ownership were obtained fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-3283