Preventing handgun injury. American College of Preventive Medicine position statement.

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  • Christopher R. Armstrong
چکیده

The morbidity, mortality, and economic cost attributable to handgun violence are staggering. Of the 192 million firearms in the United States, only one third are handguns. Yet, it is estimated that two-thirds of the more than one million Americans killed with a firearm in the past 30 years were killed with a handgun. The risk of death from homicide is threefold higher in homes where a firearm is kept. The risk of death by suicide is five times higher in homes with a firearm. More adolescents die in the United States from gunshot wounds than from all natural causes combined. In 1998, 866 people sustained fatal, unintentional, gunshot wounds. There were also 11,798 homicides and 17,424 suicides committed with a firearm in 1998. For each firearm-related death, there are more than two non-fatal firearm related injuries.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • American journal of preventive medicine

دوره 23 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002