by admin | Feb 3, 2020
An article recently published in the Archives of Suicide Research (Leenaars & Lester, 1996, 2, 223-234) concerning the impact of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation on the national gender-specific rates of suicide and homicide concluded that “… the bill had...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
In the 1980’s, about 75 percent of firearms deaths in Canada were suicides, and almost 33 percent of all suicides involved firearms. To a large extent, therefore, preventing death by firearms means preventing firearms suicides. Opportunity theory underlying...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
To assess the impact of the 1978 Canadian gun control law on suicide rates in Ontario, the authors compared firearm and nonfirearm suicide rates for 1965-1977 with those for 1979-1989. There was a decrease in level and trend over time of firearm and total suicide...
