Sentences with phrase «firearm homicides»

Stronger firearm laws are associated with reductions in firearm homicide rates, concludes a narrative review published in the November 14 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

After studying five cities, McDowall found that the rate of firearms homicides increased overall by 26 percent.

One study of the program, by Australian researchers, found that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides, and a 74 percent drop in gun suicides.

Although many of the experts surveyed said they did not believe the bill would be capable of reducing firearm homicides, a bulk of Americans still supports it.

Firearm suicides dropped to 0.8 per 100,000 people in 2006 from 2.2 in 1995, while firearm homicides dropped to 0.15 per 100,000 people in 2006 from 0.37 in 1995.

That is, simply being close to an area with strict regulations (even if the county itself doesn't have them) may be correlated with a lower firearms homicide and suicide rate, according to lead study author Dr. Elinore Kaufman.

The researchers found that «shall issue» laws were associated with a 6.5 percent higher total homicide rate than «may issue» laws, as well as an 8.6 percent higher firearm homicide rate and a 10.6 percent higher handgun homicide rate.

«From 2012 to 2014,» the researchers note, «the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100000), and ∼ 10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100000).»

About 20 percent of firearm homicides occur in the country's 25 largest cities.

«Stronger gun laws tied to decreased firearm homicides.»

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital reviewed all available articles published in peer - reviewed journals from January 1970 to August 2016 that focused specifically on the connection between firearm homicide and firearm laws.

Laws that banned assault weapons, improved child safety or aimed to limit firearm trafficking had no clear effect on firearm homicide rates.

Sen's proposal grew out of a study, published last year in Preventive Medicine, that found that states with more extensive background checks for gun buyers had fewer firearm homicide and suicide deaths between 1996 and 2005.

Gun violence restraining orders (GVROs) are a promising strategy for reducing firearm homicide and suicide in the United States, and should be considered by states seeking to address gun violence, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, Davis, argue in a new report.

The report said that the evidence from such «U.S. cross-sectional studies is quite consistent... where there are higher levels of gun prevalence, homicide rates are substantially higher, primarily due to higher firearm homicide rates.»

There's moderate evidence that these laws can reduce the number of firearm homicides and suicides and limited evidence that background checks reduce violent crime and homicides in general.

But after Missouri repealed its permit - to - purchase handgun law in 2007, firearm homicide rates increased by 25 percent, a jump that was not seen in neighboring states or the rest of the country, Webster's team reported.

For example, a 2013 study, led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, found that, after controlling for multiple variables, each percentage point increase in gun ownership correlated with a roughly 0.9 percent rise in the firearm homicide rate.

The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

That policy not only cut the number of guns in circulation but, based on the research, may have cut the firearm homicide and suicide rates too.

Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

More than 60 % of all firearm homicides and 90 % of homicides where the type of firearm was identified are committed with handguns.

«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

More than 11,000 people in the United States are killed each year as a result of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is seven times higher than in the average high - income country.

«Both groups overwhelmingly favored policies they believed would reduce firearm homicides and suicides, but there is disagreement about which laws would have these effects,» Morral said.

There is moderate evidence to support conclusions that background checks reduce firearm suicides and firearm homicides, and that laws prohibiting the purchase or possession of guns by individuals with some forms of mental illness reduce violent crime, according to the analysis.

Despite President Trump's argument that «we need to fix mental health,» only about 5 percent of firearm homicides are linked to mental health.