Sentences with phrase «from gun injuries»

In 2013, 33,636 people died from gun injuries in the United States (left pie chart).

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For example, a 1996 provision known as the Dickey Amendment effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control from tapping taxpayer funds set aside for injury prevention and control for research that could be used for gun control advocacy.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

Shots from all angles in the dark (and not all gun owners are trained to use them) would have caused even more injury.

Obviously with the likes of Danny Welbeck and Sanchez set to return from injury in the not - so - distant future, Wenger may opt to stick with his guns.

Topal was in his car returning home when his vehicle was shot at however, the gun attack did not prove to be fatal as the bullet proof glass protected the Turkish international from serious injury.

New Manchester United manager, David Moyes once admitted that playing against Manchester City was like «going into a gun fight with a knife» and it certainly felt like that for Newcastle against the Citizens, as they had several injuries ahead of the game and star man, Yohan Cabaye, was the subject of a late # 10m bid from Arsenal and was therefore not in the right frame of mind to play according to an angry Alan Pardew.

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Within weeks Teret switched his main research focus from motor vehicle injuries to gun injuries, an area in which public health research was all but nonexistent.

There are approximately 7,500 child hospitalizations and 500 in - hospital deaths each year due to injuries sustained from guns.

As chief of the Section for Trauma & Acute Care Surgery and founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Rogers will build an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life - threatening events such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence.

Instead of more police and more guns that would create enormous fear, trauma and risk of injury or death, we need safety and disciplinary practices that will actually support and protect children from harm.

Ranging from heartworm treatment, amputations, stab wounds, eye removals, skin grafting, tumor removals, arrow and gun shot wounds, complicated illnesses and injuries, skin treatments, and dental work.

Traumatic injuries for pets and military dogs include car accidents, falls from high elevations, biting or crushing wounds, as well as injuries caused by weapons such as guns, knives or explosions.

Political forces had effectively banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies from funding research on gun - related injury and death.

Reports of Taser gun injuries in the Chicago area range from that of an unarmed, handcuffed teenager to an 82 year old woman Tasered by police.

The injuries sustained in Chrisholm were attributed to a drive - by shooting, and the court held that gun shots from an unknown assailant were the direct cause of the impairment, and not the use of his car.

The injuries which result from a nail gun accident can range from minor puncture wounds to serious injuries leading to nerve damage and infection, and can even result in wrongful death.

As an example, when a construction worker is struck in the head by a nail gun, dropped from a third story scaffolding, that worker could sustain a traumatic brain injury, puncture wounds, broken bones, or even death.