Sentences with phrase «gun deaths increased»

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While the vast majority of firearms fatalities are still suicides, which make up about two - thirds of gun deaths, gun homicides ballooned from 9,600 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2016 due to increased gun violence in Chicago and certain other cities, according to the CDC.

But the research suggests that owning a gun actually increases the risk of death.

In addition, people who have recently bought handguns have an increased risk of suicide, which accounts for about two in three gun deaths in the US.

NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos» execution was part of a disturbing trend of increased law enforcement gun deaths.

«At precisely the time that gun sales jumped, do we see a sudden increase in accidental gun deaths?

«The fact that the spike in deaths is larger in states with the largest increase in gun sales reinforces the interpretation of a causal impact of the gun exposure.»

Levine noted that causal relationships — such as that between increased exposure to guns and increased risk of gun - related death — can be very difficult to pinpoint.

Although the precise timing of increased exposure to guns and increased accidental deaths strongly suggests that the two factors are linked, Levine and McKnight emphasize that they are unable to determine the extent of this relationship.

The results, published in the December 8 issue of Science, suggest a direct relationship between increased exposure to guns and the risk of gun - related deaths, said Wellesley College researchers Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight.

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.

In response to Kleck's concerns about the «astounding» increase in deaths, McKnight says that the new gun sales accounted for only part of the increased exposure after Sandy Hook; people removing their guns from storage to inspect or clean them could also have contributed.

The fact that the increase in accidental deaths at precisely the time that gun sales spiked is concentrated in the states where that spike was the largest increases the likelihood that the impact was causal.»

Levine and McKnight also gauged whether the increase in accidental gun deaths was more pronounced in geographical areas in which gun sales surged higher than elsewhere in the country after Sandy Hook.

A surge in gun buying in the months immediately following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, corresponded with an increase in accidental gun deaths in the United States, one - third of them in children, according to an analysis published today in Science.

Although the paper suggests that increased gun «exposure» caused the spike in accidental deaths, she says the authors don't grapple with what they mean, precisely, by exposure.

And this public health perspective spurred renewed interest in studies that test to what degree the presence of guns increases the likelihood of death to their owners.

Looking forward, the RAND team recommends that the federal government increase funding for gun research to levels comparable to federal research investments in other significant causes of death and injury, such as automobile accidents.

The intense discussion stems from the increase in gun - related deaths and mass shootings that have occurred throughout the U.S. in the past decade.

Most nail gun injuries involve the hands, but there are an increasing amount of nail gun injuries involving the eye, head, back, and even death.

This talk of arming teachers strikes me as cavalier leaping toward insane, an answer to mass shootings that expands, rather than diminishes, the presence of guns in American life, thereby increasing the risk of injury or death.

But today, hundreds of South Florida students have walked out of class and are marching in the streets to demand increased gun - safety laws after 17 students and teachers were shot to death last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.