by admin | Feb 3, 2020
This article empirically examines the relationship between suicides and firearm control laws. Firearm license to purchase or waiting period to purchase laws were found to reduce a state’s suicide rate of white males aged 20-64 by three suicides per 100, 000...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Homicides followed by suicides are rare yet devastating events. This study, for the first time, details the problem in Kentucky by linking coroner, medical examiner, vital statistics and administrative judicial data. In the three-year period 1998-2000, there were 492...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
SUICIDE is a major public health problem in the United States. In 1980 nearly 27,000 persons took their own lives, making suicide the 10th most common cause of death overall and the third most common cause among adolescents and young adults. Given that 57 percent of...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
Canada’s 1977 Criminal Law Amendment Act mandated a firearms acquisition certificate for the purchase of any firearm; strengthened the registration requirements for handguns and other “restricted” weapons already imposed in 1968; and placed automatic...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020
The authors describe suicide rates in Toronto and Ontario and methods used for suicide in Toronto for 5 years before and after enactment of Canadian gun control legislation in 1978. They also present data from San Diego, Calif., where state laws attempt to limit...
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