• Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jan 1988

    Firearm availability and the incidence of suicide and homicide.

    • D Lester.
    • Richard Stockton State College.
    • Acta Psychiatr Belg. 1988 Jan 1;88(5-6):387-93.

    AbstractThe present studied explored the validity of several indirect measures of firearm ownership in the states of the USA: the percentage of homicides and suicides committed with firearms, the accidental death rate from firearms, the strictness of state handgun control laws, and subscription rates to firearm magazines. These measures were then correlated with rates of suicide and homicide, and it was found that states with a greater availability of firearms had higher firearm suicide rates and higher firearm homicide rates.

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