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Access to guns increases risk of suicide, homicide.»
Not exact matches
Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age
to purchase a firearm
to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most
gun purchases, and
increase funding for school safety measures and
access to mental health care.
In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed
to loosen
gun control
increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed
to restrict
gun access increased 10 percent, according
to the Harvard Business School study.
The SAFE Act made more rifles subject
to a state ban on assault weapons,
increased sentences for illegal
gun possession and required mental health officials
to report safety concerns about any patients with
access to guns.
However, we know that while the number of
guns in the country has
increased, the number of homes with
guns has actually decreased, meaning that net
access to firearms could have gone down.
«Instead, we should be addressing the root causes of
gun violence by reducing the number of
guns on our streets, limiting
access to these deadly weapons and
increasing mental health services
to ensure the kind of healthy environment that will allow kids
to grow and thrive.
The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons,
increased penalties for illegal
gun possession, reduced public
access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals
to report concerns about a
gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.
This spike in
gun sales, and thus likely
increased access and exposure
to guns, prompted the researchers
to explore whether there was a similar spike in accidental deaths related
to firearms.
The American Public Health Association, in contrast, issued a statement praising the administration's support for violence research and
increased mental health care, noting that» [t] here is an irrefutable link between
access to guns and
increased homicides.»
The presence of hundreds of thousands of
guns on campuses
increases the likelihood that students or school personnel will gain
access to firearms and accidentally hurt each other.
Across the board, student protesters pressed for similar change: Broaden background checks for weapons purchases, restrict
access to assault rifles, enforce mental health screenings for
gun owners and
increase security at schools.
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The authors cite various studies that show that having
access to a
gun at home
increases the propensity
to commit a variety of crimes, by about 30 percent among adolescents.