• Death studies · Feb 2003

    The impact of gun control (Bill C-51) on suicide in Canada.

    • Antoon A Leenaars, Ferenc Moksony, David Lester, and Susanne Wenckstern.
    • draalee@wincom.net
    • Death Stud. 2003 Feb 1; 27 (2): 103-24.

    AbstractSuicide is a multiply determined behavior, calling for diverse prevention efforts. Gun control has been proposed as an important component of society's response, and an opportunity for studying the effects of legislative gun control laws on suicide rates was provided by Canada's Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1977 (Bill C-51). This article reviews previous studies of the impact of this act on the total population of Canada and subpopulations by age and gender and, in addition, presents the results of 2 new studies: a different method of analysis, an interrupted time-series analysis, and the results of a multiple regression analysis that controls for some social variables. It appears that Bill C-51 may have had an impact on suicide rates, even after controls for social variables.

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