Sentences with phrase «firearm deaths»

Association between gun law reforms and intentional firearm deaths in Australia, 1979 - 2013.

«The fact that we see a spike in accidental firearm deaths precisely at this moment, it's hard to imagine that's a coincidence,» Levine says.

«We were on opposite sides of the heated battle 16 years ago, but we are in strong agreement now that scientific research should be conducted into preventing firearm injuries and that ways to prevent firearm deaths can be found without encroaching on the rights of legitimate gun owners,» they wrote.

Why don't liberals look at the 1.2 MILLION babies aborted yearly in this country (17,000 / year in Connecticut, which translates to about 46 / day), rather than 11,000 homicide by firearm deaths?

At that was the year Mayor Kathy Whitmire stopped a life saving gun safety class for preschoolers in a move that brought Houston's childhood accidental firearms death rate to among the highest in the United States.

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear arms.

Economist Bisakha Sen wants to study how US states» gun laws and gun cultures correlate with certain crimes and with firearms deaths in each state — and whether differing laws and cultures in neighboring states «spill over» to influence a state's statistics.

That it should lead to a 27 % increase in accidental firearm deaths and a 64 % increase among children is «astounding,» he wrote.

Second, firearm deaths in states with higher buyback rates per capita fell proportionately more than in states with lower buyback rates.»

But the country still has one of the highest rates of gun violence in Europe — with over 200 firearm deaths a year — most of which are suicides.

According to experts from around the world, policies restricting firearms correlate with a reduction in firearm deaths.

But researchers David Hemenway and Mary Vriniotis argue that the gun buyback program very likely played a role: «First, the drop in firearm deaths was largest among the type of firearms most affected by the buyback.

Decades of U.S. national data show a steady downward trend in accidental firearm deaths — from 1.55 per 100,000 people in 1948 to 0.18 per 100,000 in 2014.

Since 1930, the number of privately owned firearms in the United States has more than quintupled, and yet the annual number of accidental firearm deaths has decreased 80 %.