Firearms and Suicide
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 932 (1) , 225-240
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05808.x
Abstract
The evidence linking firearms in the home to risk for suicide is reviewed. These data come from epidemiological, case-control, quasiexperimental, and prospective studies. The convergent finding from this wide range of studies is that there is a strong relationship between firearms in the home and risk for suicide, most firmly established in the United States.Keywords
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